Re: Menu (Was: Re: Unimplemented AppKit classes)

[Adam Fedor]

On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 12:02 PM, Stefan Urbanek wrote:
> I prefer menu-bar to nextish menu (this preference comes from my Atari 
> ST days). It takes less space. As far as i remember, there were some 
> attemts(patches) to create a menu bar in gnustep-gui.
>
> What do you think about a menubar like this:
>    http://amiga.emugaming.com/concept/mockup.jpg
> Status bar can be same, but from another side, or from the bottom 
> right corner...
>
> How difficult it should be to change gui that way, that we can have 
> 'NSMenu' bundles with custom menu interface, so developers can create 
> and user can chose what they like? Can something like that be achieved 
> by using NSInterface functions? (loading of interface bundles)
If you're just talking about a horizontal menu like the one you 
reference, it's not that big a change. Someone sent in a patch awhile 
ago to change NSMenu to allow this, but I never got all the bugs out 
(nor a copyright assignment) - although there are issues of where to 
put top-level menu items (like Hide and Quit).

I think something like a 'Menu Bar' requires support from the window 
manager to really work correctly.