[Cuis-dev] How to extend BrowserWindow menus?

[Mariano Montone]

Just reporting that I've figured out how to extend the menus now :)


      Mariano

El 5/6/24 a las 10:34, Mariano Montone escribió:
> Hi Juan,
>
> I'm looking at what you point, but I can't figure it out.
>
> The easiest way for me would be to see some example code.
>
> If you don't mind, here's what I'm trying to do:
>
> I've implemented a SearchBrowser tool in Cuis-Smalltalk-Tools. Now I 
> would like to add a 'Search ...' menu item to the browser's category 
> menu that simply calls SearchBrowserWindow class>>searchCategory:  
> with the browser's currently selected category.
>
> Perhaps you can provide the code for that, I will take it from there 
> for my other cases. And it may also help with validating your design.
>
> In any case, there's no rush, and thanks,
>
>     Mariano
>
> El 5/6/24 a las 09:19, Juan Vuletich escribió:
>> Hi Mariano,
>>
>> I'm doing a big overhaul of the way to specify Menus and Keyboard 
>> Shortcuts in Cuis. The objective is to make it more flexible and 
>> nicer to use than DynamicMenuBuilder. It is extensible by third 
>> parties, although this is not yet documented and there are not any 
>> examples. See #at:registerMenuAndShortcutsSpecProvider:, or give me 
>> another week or so until this stabilizes.
>>
>> For a specific case where the implementor of the menu item action is 
>> neither the Window nor the Model, see the menu for the list of files 
>> in FileList. In any case, what I'd do perhaps is to extend the window 
>> menu with the new operations that require its state.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> On 6/4/2024 5:05 PM, Mariano Montone via Cuis-dev wrote:
>>> After looking more deeply at the implementation of menus, etc, I 
>>> think my problem may be a bit difficult to solve.
>>>
>>> So perhaps it is better to forget about this, I've got it more or 
>>> less "solved" for my purposes.
>>>
>>> El 4/6/24 a las 12:30, Mariano Montone escribió:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> I would like to extend BrowserWindow menus from my extension.
>>>>
>>>> I have code like this:
>>>>
>>>> MyExtension class>>systemCategoryMenuOptions
>>>>
>>>>     ^ {
>>>>             {
>>>>                 #itemGroup             ->         10.
>>>>                 #itemOrder             ->         10.
>>>>                 #label             -> 'search...'.
>>>>                 #object       ->         self.
>>>>                 #selector             -> #searchCategory:.
>>>>                 #icon             ->         #findIcon
>>>>             } asDictionary.
>>>>         }
>>>>
>>>> But I can't figure out how to access the Browser instance from the 
>>>> #searchCategory: method in my extension class. I have no way of 
>>>> passing it via #arguments: there either.
>>>>
>>>> It makes sense to be able to, as extensions will want to access the 
>>>> current browser state (selected category, etc). Is there a 
>>>> workaround for this?
>>>>
>>>> Also, if this is solvable, I will want to extend the class list 
>>>> menu of the browser too. But it doesn't use DynamicMenuBuilder 
>>>> anymore, it was dropped at some point. Could it be brought back?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
>>>>     Mariano
>>>>
>>
>>