[Gambas-user] Creating Actions at runtime

[Me]

On Sat, 29 Sep 2018 13:31:07 +0200
Benoît Minisini <g4mba5 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Le 29/09/2018 à 12:37, Me a écrit :
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> >> The Action._Register() method is called each time the Action property of
> >> a control changes.
> >>
> >> -- 
> >> Benoît Minisini
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> > Aha! Does that happen for menus as well?
> > More tomorrow, I'll have a look-see.
> > b
> > 
> 
> In the last commit, I have added two new methods to the Action class 
> defined in gb.form.mdi:
> 
> Action.Add() declares a new action. You have to give all the action 
> properties: the action name, the text, the icon url, if the action can 
> have a shortcut, and the default shortcut.
> 
> Action.AddFrom() does the same thing, but from a control.
> 
> Beware that as a Picture object never knows that it has been created 
> from the stock, Action.AddFrom() cannot guess the icon url associated 
> with a control.
> 
> I decided not to add actions automatically through the 
> Action._Register() method I told you previously, because it's too hard 
> to handle.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Benoît Minisini
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Works well!  But ...    :-)
Something strange happened. Some of the normal menus i.e. the ones configured 
via the form designer no longer appear in the shortcut editor, some do?? To make
them re-appear I had to delete them and re-add them, then everything works.
(I am looking at the .actions files and see some strange things like menus with "no
text" even though they actually do have text/caption.  Maybe this is not related?
I'll do some more checking.)

regards
Bruce
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