On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 12:41:09AM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

> Did you actually try to see whether a full menu redo is a problem?

No, and I should (this is the 2nd time this week I have been caught
optimising prematurely ...)

> due to that (and the code can be optimized). I am worried that,
> if we have 'clever' code for the update, it will become out of sync.

Right, it's a risk ...

> regenerate the menu system after each action, mostly. What you could
> try first is to generate the menus at each Menubar::update() and see
> what happens. Hmm, but of course you will have timing problems with
> TOC... Can't you generate the menus on the fly like with xforms? It
> seems ugly, but it works well in practice.

My reticence to do this is simple: I do not trust this to be reliable
across Qt/Windows, Qt 3.x, Qt 4.x, etc. Also, it requires a reasonably
ugly hack, and I haven't actually tried it ...

regards
john

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