DIALOG2 - menu: enhancement suggestions - TextMate

28 Mar 2008


      Hi,
the new DIALOG2 allows to display an inline menu with headers like:
Nouns
   table 1
   tree  2
   vase  3
Verbs
   count 4
   drink 5
   eat   6
Very nice! But it could occur the following case:
Nouns
   drink 1
   tree  2
   vase  3
Verbs
   count 4
   drink 5
   eat   6
If I now choose "drink" I get:
<dict>
    <key>selectedIndex</key>
    <integer>6</integer>
    <key>selectedMenuItem</key>
    <dict>
    	<key>title</key>
    	<string>drink</string>
    </dict>
</dict>
But I do not know which "drink". Ok, I also got selectedIndex 6 and it  
would be doable to figure it out. To simplify it I changed the code  
slightly to output this:
<dict>
    <key>selectedIndex</key>
    <integer>6</integer>
    <key>selectedMenuItem</key>
    <dict>
    	<key>header</key>
    	<string>Verbs</string>
    	<key>title</key>
    	<string>drink</string>
    </dict>
</dict>
if there is an header given. If no header is found you will get the  
"old" dict.
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An other very tiny problem I encountered is the following:
I would like to have this menu:
Offset
   20
   10
   0
   -10
   -20
The negative numbers are interpreted as a separator because the  
strings begin with -. One could easily fix it by using  
"kMenuItemAttrIgnoreMeta". I did this, but this could be discussed, of  
course.
Here's the code:
Cheers,
--Hans