Pulldown Menu Questions

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• Subject: Pulldown Menu Questions
• From: Nichael Cramer <ncramer@BBN.COM>
• Date: Mon, 22 Nov 93 11:18:05 EST

[Allegro, CLim-2-beta-beta-beta, Sparc]

I've been working with the motifish pull-down/cascading menus.  They look
swell, are *fast* and pretty much do what I want.  However a couple of
questions: 

1] If I use them in a default (:MENU-BAR T) context, all is well.  However
if I try to get them up any other way, I get the regular old clim-ish
menus; for example by using a (:panes (COMMAND-PANE :command-menu ...)
form, or by laying them out myself.

Can I get the desired behavior any other way?

2] A common use for the cascading-menus is to put data at the "end of the
tree".  That is, at the outmost leafs of a cascade-tree I would like to
have something other than regular commands; in the example below the
individual dogs are a dynamic set.

  ==========================================
  |EXIT    ACTIVE AGENTS     REFRESH
  ======= --------------- =================
          |  HUMANS   > |
          | MACHINES  > |
          |   PETS    >-------------
          -------------|  FISH   > |
                       |  CATS   > |
                       |  DOGS   >-------------------
                       -----------|     BUSTER      |
                                  |      RUFF       |
                                  |      SPOT       |
                                  | YU-SHIANG PUPPY |
                                  -------------------


I can certainly do this as the obvious, straight-forward kludge (i.e. a
command per "data-item").  However, it would be nice if, at the appropriate
level in the cascade, I could whip up my own menu with my own data-items in
it, ideally something I can cons up on the fly without needing to use
Commands.

Likewise I can pop-up a regular menu at this point, but it won't behave in
the cascading-mode.

Do I have any control over this?

Thanks much
Nichael

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