Re: A menu namespace?

Adam Megacz <[email protected]> 07 Oct 2003 11:53:39 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.xwt.widgets
Organization XWT
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Charles Goodwin <[email protected]> writes:
> xwt.lib.menu.*

NO.

> xwt.widget.menu.*

YES.

> In my opinion, there are only the following relevant menu widgets:
> menu (the menu toolbar)
> menuitem
> submenu
> separator

- menubar (the bar) and menu (each pulldown menu) are different; you
  only have one here.  submenu and menu should be the same thing.

- menu-checkbox?  they behave differently from normal checkboxes

- [right-click] popup menu?



> They way I've done it, they don't overlap on anything.  The separator is 
> actually fairly generic - if you look closely at some monopoly 
> dialogues, the separator is the same as in a menu.

That's probably a bad idea... how does <separator/> know if it's in a
menu or not?  It can't look at its parent.

  - a

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