RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] another menu question

[Jonathan S. <jso...@al...>]

Pete,

Yes! Thank you!  I didn't realize it would be that easy.

Thanks,

Jonathan

At 6/19/2002 12:31 PM, you wrote:

>Try this... is this what you mean?
>
>-Pete
>##########################
>#!perl -w
>
>use Win32::GUI;
>use strict;
>
>my $counter=1;
>
>my $Menu = new Win32::GUI::Menu(
>  "&File" => "File",
>  "   >   &Counter $counter..." => "Counter",
>);
>
>my $MW = new Win32::GUI::Window(
>     -title   => 'menu.pl',
>     -left    => 100,
>     -top     => 100,
>     -width   => 150,
>     -height  => 100,
>     -name    => 'MainWindow',
>     -visible => 1,
>     -menu    => $Menu,
>);
>
>$MW->AddButton(
>     -text    => 'change menu',
>     -name    => 'menu',
>     -left    => 25,
>     -top     => 25,
>);
>
>Win32::GUI::Dialog();
>
>
>sub MainWindow_Terminate
>{
>  return -1;
>}
>
>sub menu_Click
>{
>  &counteradd();
>}
>
>sub Counter_Click
>{
>  &counteradd();
>}
>
>sub counteradd
>{
>  $counter++;
>  print "DEBUG: counter = $counter\n";
>
>  my $Menu = new Win32::GUI::Menu(
>   "&File" => "File",
>   "   >   &Counter $counter..." => "Counter",
>  );
>  $MW->Change(-menu => $Menu);
>}
>
>### END
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jonathan Southwick 
>[<mailto:jso...@al...>mailto:jso...@al...]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 10:04
>To: per...@li...
>Subject: RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] another menu question
>
>I meant I want them to be able to access the NEW menu items without 
>restarting the script.
>
>Jonathan
>
>At 6/19/2002 09:59 AM, you wrote:
>
>The results are already stored to the ini file so that when they run the 
>script the next time they will have the menu items available to them.  The 
>ini file is read in and the 'Message' section of the menu is created on 
>startup of the script.
>
>I want them to be able to access the menu items without having to restart 
>the script.  Is it possible to do this?
>
>Jonathan
>
>At 6/19/2002 09:35 AM, you wrote:
>
>Depends on what you want to happen. Do you want their changes to be saved 
>to the .ini file or should the changes only last for that session. My 
>suggestion is that you localize the building of the menu after they've 
>made their edit (maybe a button event?) and store the shortcut/description 
>relationship in a hash and write (or don't write) it to the .ini after the 
>edit.
>
>Another way to do it would be the brute force method, where they make the 
>changes, save to .ini, and then restart the script (exec script.pl).

Jonathan Southwick
jso...@al...
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