Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)

[Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz>]

2009/10/1 Bean <bean123ch@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Michal Suchanek <hramrach@centrum.cz> wrote:
>> It is not. A label can have focus (the whole icon+text widget) but panel cannot.
>>
>> It will be impossible to make both focused at once without special trickery.
>
> Hi,
>
> It's possible to make both focused, actually my next demo would be to
> illustrate the menu interaction. The basic unit is panel, we can add
> "input" or "select" property to panel so that it can have input focus
> or can be selected, something like this:
>
>  panel {
>    direction = vertical
>    space = 10/1
>    input = 1
>
>    panel {
>      direction = horizontal
>      space = 10/1
>      command = ""
>
>      image {
>        image = "/menu/ubuntu.png"
>      }
>
>      text {
>        text = "Ubuntu"
>        color = "yellow:light-green"
>      }
>    }
>
>    panel {
>      direction = horizontal
>      space = 10/1
>      command = ""
>
>      image {
>        image = "/menu/debian.png"
>      }
>
>      text {
>        text = "Debian"
>        color = "yellow:light-green"
>      }
>    }
>
>    panel {
>      direction = horizontal
>      space = 10/1
>      command = ""
>
>      image {
>        image = "/menu/gentoo.png"
>      }
>
>      text {
>        text = "Gentoo"
>        color = "yellow:light-green"
>      }
>    }
>  }
>

This sounds good. It gives more flexibility in designing the active items.

> There are two level interaction, "input" is used to indicate "window",

Cannot this be inferred automatically?

That is any panel that contains command items is a window.

> we use tab key to switch between different window. "command" is used
> to indicate "item", each window can have multiple items, we use up or
> down key to navigate between items. The command property also contains
> the  command to execute when the item is clicked.

Thanks

Michal