Menu Icon and Menu Item Type

[hln]

Hi,

I am develop Sparx Add-in and I have some questions:

• Can I set icon to my menu items?
• Can I select a type for my menu item? For instance: I want to some my menu items are "Radio Button" or "Checkbox" type.

Thanks

[philchudley]

With regards to check box style menus, you can use code similar to the following

public void EA_GetMenuState(EA.Repository repository,
                                    string menuLocation,
                                    string menuName,
                                    string itemName,
                                    ref bool isEnabled,
                                    ref bool isChecked)
        {

            switch (itemName)
            {
                case "&Enabled":
                    isEnabled = true;
                    isChecked = menuIsChecked;
                    break;
                case "&About":
                    isEnabled = true;
                    break;
             }
        }

Where menuIsChecked is a local variable of type bool

To toggle the menu (i.e. react to the user menu click) use something similar to the following

public void EA_MenuClick(EA.Repository repository,
                                    string menuLocation,
                                    string menuName,
                                    string itemName) {
            switch (itemName) {
                case "&Enabled" :
                    menuIsChecked = !menuIsChecked;
                    break;
                case "&About" :
                    aboutBox = new AboutBox();
                    aboutBox.ShowDialog();
                    aboutBox = null;
                    break;
            }

All the best

Phil

[Geert Bellekens]

Just to be clear, you can only do the checkbox thing with menu's.
No icons or radio buttons or anything else fancy.

Geert

[hln]

I have another question: how to add horizontal line in menu.

[qwerty]

IIRC you simply supply a hyphen ('-').

q.

[Pavel Bunygin]

Hi!
Is there a way to add a shortcut key?

[philchudley]

Isn't that what the & in front of a letter in the menu item name supposed to do?

I believe it works with either the Ctrl or Alt key, haven't tried in my extensions though

Cheers

Phil

[Pavel Bunygin]

It works when a menu is already open for navigation. But I want execute my function by pressing something like Ctr-Q without opening a menu and going through it.
It should look like this:
"My Function      Ctr+Q"

[qwerty]

AFAIR: Not possible. It has been asked here several times.

q.