My form takes a noticeable time to repaint. I don't want to do that. But I see with JQt it's possible to define two separate forms for the same app. If one of them specifies no menus, it lets you see the menus of the other form – even when it's got focus! At least, it does on the Mac (…under Snow Leopard).
I conjecture it's possible to split my form into a menu-less and a menus-only form. The latter will be a lot less pain to recreate – and easily reconfigured like this: wd MYMENUSONLY rplc 'Repeat Last Action' ; 'Repeat "Delete Line"' The same trick will let me offer an up-to-the-minute MRU list attached to the File menu. Maybe there are gotchers. Maybe it won't work on all platforms. But it's worth me doing some experiments. Anyone care to try it with MSWin? (I can see a sticky "fellow traveller" being needed for the main window, consisting only of a menubar.) On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 2:49 AM, chris burke <[email protected]> wrote: > You can create a new form to replace the old, positioning exactly over the > old. This should happen fast enough to be unnoticeable. > > I cannot think of examples in J8, but this was done in J6, for example with > the Find and Replace dialogs. > > On 11 September 2015 at 15:56, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I think these functions are not implemented. >> On Sep 12, 2015 4:50 AM, "Ian Clark" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > With jwd in JQt, how do I change the text of a given item in an >> > existing set of menus? >> > >> > E.g. to state precisely what action I'm offering to Undo / Repeat / etc? >> > >> > An allied problem is to add items to an existing menu, e.g. to provide >> > a MRU facility. >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
