[Gambas-user] Trouble removing menu item during run time

[Fabien Bodard]

Not addonname.index but addonname[index]
Le 1 déc. 2012 07:28, "Fabien Bodard" <gambas.fr at ...626...> a écrit :

> Simply tous need to store the menu instance in an array or a collection.
>
> Collection is usefully as you can retrieve menu from a name
> So in your form header
> Private $colMenu as new collection
>
> In the menu creation:
> ...
> $colMenu[AddonName.index]=hmenu
> ...
>
> For delete
> $colMenu[AddonName.index] .delete
> $colMenu[AddonName.index]=NULL
>
> THAT'S ALL :-)
> Le 1 déc. 2012 05:22, "Willy Raets" <willy at ...2734...> a écrit :
>
>> On Sat, 2012-12-01 at 11:00 +1030, Bruce wrote:
>> > On Sat, 2012-12-01 at 01:13 +0100, Willy Raets wrote:
>> > > I have this piece of code (in a rather big project) that build op a
>> menu
>> > > during run time in case AddOns get installed. Each installed AddOn
>> gets
>> > > it own Menu Item upon installation for launching the AddOn. THis all
>> > > works like clockwork.
>> > >
>> > > This is the code that creates the menu items for each Add On
>> installed:
>> > >
>> > > For iNdex = 1 To AddOnNumber
>> > >   hMenuItem = New Menu(hMenu) As "_MenuEvent"
>> > >   With hMenuItem
>> > >     .Name = "mnu" & AddOnName[iNdex]
>> > >     .Enabled = True
>> > >     .Caption = AddOnName[iNdex]
>> > >     .Text = AddOnName[iNdex] & "..."
>> > >     .Picture = Picture.Load(AddOnPath & "/" & AddOnName[iNdex] &
>> ".png")
>> > >   End With
>> > > Next
>> > >
>> > > Now I write code to remove the installed AddOns if users want to.
>> > > Removing is no problem and works well.
>> > >
>> > > Only problem that remains is how to remove the menu item that starts
>> the
>> > > AddOn during run time?
>> > >
>> > > In my Subroutine Remove() the name of the AddOn menu item to be
>> removed
>> > > is: "mnu" & AvailableName[Index]
>> > >
>> > > AvailableName[Index] is the name of the AddOn that has been removed a
>> > > few lines of code before.
>> > >
>> > > How do I remove this menu item? Any suggestions?
>> > >
>> > > Thanks,
>> > >
>> > > Willy
>> > >
>> >
>> > (Quick answer)
>> > You could just set its' .Visible to false
>>
>> Even better .Delete exists for menu items, but that isn't the problem.
>>
>> When I remove AddOn1 I need: mnuAddOn1.Delete (or .Visible = False)
>> When I remove AddOn2 I need: mnuAddOn2.Delete (or .Visible = False)
>> When I remove MyAddOn I need: mnuAddOn.Delete (or .Visible = False)
>>
>> Problem:
>> When removing AddOn1 when running the application the name of the menu
>> to remove "mnuAddOn1" is in a string variable
>> When removing AddOn2 when running the application the name of the menu
>> to remove "mnuAddOn2" is in a string variable
>>
>> How to tell Gambas that the String content is the name of the menu?
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> Dim sMenuNAme As String
>> sMenuName = "mnu" & AvailableName[Index]
>>
>> And now? I can't do:
>>
>> mnuAddOn1.Delete
>>
>> in my code as I don't know that it is named mnuAddOn1 at coding time
>> since that is determined during run time. AvailableName[Index] is the
>> name of the AddOn being removed at that time.
>>
>> Remember menus of add ons are made during runtime when the Addon is
>> installed and menu items are named "mnu" & AddOnName that just got
>> installed. Seemed logic at the time but not that sure anymore.
>>
>> Thanks anyway,
>>
>> Willy
>>
>>
>>
>>
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