Re: [ jEdit-devel ] GUIUtilities.loadMenuBar(View,String) -> JFrame

[Dirk M. <dmo...@gm...>]

Slava Pestov wrote:
> Dirk Moebius wrote:
> > View inherits from JFrame. The only difficulty would be
> > MenuModel.create(View), since it actually uses the View
> > (view.getMenu(name)), but the others don't.
> 
> Because Menu/Bar/ItemModel don't suit InfoViewer. Because
> each menu item loaded using that scheme requires an edit
> action, it means that each InfoViewer command should be an
> EditAction. 

Why not?

> However, because all EditActions can be
> assigned shortcuts in the shortcut editor, the user could
> assign a shortcut to an InfoViewer command (Say, 'Go Back').

Why not?

> This could be very confusing.

Why?

> Instead of fudging around with the current menu bar API,
> we need something new and more flexible.

I think the current API is very powerful. Configuring the menu with 
view.mbar=... is comfortable, defining mnemonics with '$' etc.
This is something you can't do with the default Swing menu model. Leave
it as it is. I think, there is only little to do to complete it.

Dirk.
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