On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 11:34:09AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> It is not very complicated actually.
Hmm
> The main difference now is that expand only has to get called _once_
> and that it physically (and recursively) builds the whole menu tree.
It gets called once ...
> Basically, the code for populating one item of the menubar goes like
> this:
>
> Menu tomenu;
> Menu const frommenu = menubackend_->getMenu(item->submenuname());
> menubackend_->expand(frommenu, tomenu, view->buffer());
> create_submenu(tomenu);
... but it gets called for each item in the menubar. Eh ??
> Is that clearer now?
Not really ...
> I plan to remove toc code from menu frontend this
> evening, so that all the menuitem kinds you should have to worry about
> are Command, Submenu and Separator. Will that be simple enough?
Hopefully.
> Then of course will come the problems of when we want the TOCs to be
> updated. But this is a separate problem, to be solved at MenuBackend
> level. I'll try to do some profiling/optimization of the code, to see
> if we _really_ need to be clever there.
Of course, it can't be solved entirely at MBE level, because I have to
be able to find my current menus to clear and repopulate them. And I
don't want to have to do a full menu re-do each time !
regards
john
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