Re: cfg.h (config layer 0 discussion)

    Hi, D Richard Felker III!

Sometime (on Monday, May 19 at 16:18) I've received something...
>> >> then we could add optional items (to video_config[] for example) by GUI
>> >> not in common config but in any. :)

>> >Huh? I don't see why this is useful. Could you explain better?

>>     I'll try to explain. How menu system for GUI-based application may be
>> created? By another structure that will copy config but with some tree?
>> You may be very surprised but level 0 config already has all for GUI menu
>> in it. Only thing it has not yet was formatting field (from main menu
>> panel to drop-down menu, from drop-down menu to submenu, for separators
>> between parts of drop-down menu, etc.). So that CONF_TYPE_GROUP at first
>> was proposed as such formatting field (application-level type config
>> item). Finally on "Alt" keypress or mouse event we can just run some
>> function of GUI like display_menu(window,config) - it's enough and you
>> don't have to make some deep changes to reformat menu - just reorder
>> items of config in source or even in runtime. :)
>>     Did you understand now?

>Hmm, so the point is to make it easy to nest groups (as subconfigs)
>and add and remove items from them?

Yes. For nested groups and separators. :)

    Andriy.