[Iup-users] Dynamically modified menus

Otfried Cheong otfried.iup at ipe.airpost.net
Sun Oct 7 21:38:29 GMT+3 2007


Antonio Scuri wrote:
>  IUP 2.x has a serious limitation on appending new controls to already
> mapped containers like popup menus or dialogs.
> 
>  You can only dynamically create menus before they are mapped to the native
> system.
> 
>  IUP 3 will not have that limitation.
> 
>  For now users implement different approaches to workaround that limitation.
> A very simple one is just to change the title of existing menu items and
> disable the extra menu items that are not used.

Thanks - I guess I will do this while waiting for IUP 3 :-)

I tried having a popup menu activated by a menu item in the main menu, 
but this looks very awkward (because the main menu disappears when the 
popup menu is shown).

Cheers,
  Otfried






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