Re: Some menu ideas
Chris.Arguin@unh.edu
Wed, 13 May 1998 16:43:56 -0400 (EDT)
On Tue, 12 May 1998, David Mihm wrote:
> > Firstly, I'm vaguely annoyed that I don't have much control over how the
> > items in the menu are sorted. Personally, I don't want all the directories
> > first, and neither date nor alphabetical order are really good for me. I'd
> > like to have the Quit menu at the bottom no matter what, for a start.
>
> This is no longer an issue. Just recompile after editing configure.h and
> defining " #define NO_MAKESTARTMENU ". Now all you simply need to do is
> manually edit your startmenu file to your liking.
I figured that was probably still an option somehow, but I *like* the
directory idea.
Yes, I want my cake and eat it too!
In actual fact, it should be a trival code change (sort by names, and just
strip any leading ##_ before actual writing to the menu), so it's just a
matter of how long it takes me to get to it. Aw hell, let me try it now
(I'm procrastinating studying for finals, can't you tell :)...
[an hour or so later]
I had it all working, except that certain menus (Quit, Modules, etc...)
are special cases. The Afterstep code actually looks for a start/Quit, so
it doesn't find start/99_Quit... The menu displays in the correct place,
but is non-functional. I could fix that too, but eventually this
turns into a kludge upon a kludge.
Oh well... If there is no great demand, I won't bother.
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