Can a menu shortcut not be an Amiga-R + Something?

[Sim085]

I am using NewMenu. One of the fields allows me to set the nm_CommKey. As stated in the documentation when I set this I get a picture of the AmigaR key and the letter I configure. Everything works as expected .

However I cannot find anywhere in documentation how I could set a shortcut that is not the AmigaR key + <Letter>. For example, is there a way how I could get an image of the Ctrl key + <Letter> instead? (example; Ctrl + C, Ctrl + V, etc).

Is this possible?

By looking at the documentation I can see that one possible () option is by using a MenuItem ItemFill and try and get a result that is similar to the one provided by LayoutMenus and then inject this new item in the menu returned by the CreateMenu call.

However I was wondering if there is a more standard way how to achieve this..

Anyone has any ideas?

[Sim085]

Hmm, I cannot understand from where the Amiga-R image is coming from when using NewMenus.

I can see that the CreateMenus function returns a Menu which FirstItem is a MenuItem which ItemFill is an IntuiText. IntuiText documentation, however, says "Each of these three objects may be chained together with other members of the same type". I therefore thought maybe the Amiga-R key printed in the menu is some fancy font, but the IntuiText structure NextText is NULL.

struct NewMenu menu[] ={
        {  NM_TITLE,    “MyMenu”, 0,  0,  0,  0 },
    {     NM_ITEM,    “MyMenuItem”, "A",0,  0,  0 },
}
struct Menu *strip = CreateMenus(menu, TAG_END);
struct MenuItem *mi = strip->FirstItem;
struct IntuiText *t = ((struct IntuiText *)mi->ItemFill);
// Prints MyMenuItem.
printf("%s\n", t->IText);
// But there are no other elements!
printf("Is Null? %d\n", t->NextText == NULL);

Is the Amiga-R key image being drawn by the LayoutMenus? If yes how does it do this?

Originally Posted by Sim085

By looking at the documentation I can see that one possible () option is by using a MenuItem ItemFill and try and get a result that is similar to the one provided by LayoutMenus and then inject this new item in the menu returned by the CreateMenu call.

[Sim085]

To understand from where the Amiga-R image is coming from I built a menu the old way (using the Menu and MenuItem structures). I can see the Amiga-R image shows up as soon as the COMMSEQ flag is used in the MenuItem. So my original assumption that this was an Image pointed to from the MenuItem was wrong. From the code I have written it would seem this is done by the SetMenuStrip call.

So while I still wonder if there is some standard way how to get a different key image next to a menu item.

I wonder, if for example someone wants to draw a smiley next to a menu item how would that someone go about doing that?

[thomas]

You can allocate a second IntuiText and link it to the one created by CreateMenus. Leave COMMSEQ off.

LayoutMenus apparently has support for this already as it moves the second text to the right edge of the menu automatically.

[Sim085]

Yeyyy

Can confirm that works.

It is not as beautiful as the Amiga Key image but it works

Originally Posted by thomas

You can allocate a second IntuiText and link it to the one created by CreateMenus. Leave COMMSEQ off.

LayoutMenus apparently has support for this already as it moves the second text to the right edge of the menu automatically.

[Warty]

Maybe custom font with your preferred image(s), then use that font in the second intuiText?

Will the keyboard shortcut detection work though, for something other than Amiga key?

[Sim085]

No, for the menu system it is just something cosmetic. I would need to add extra code to detect when the shortcut in question is pressed. In my case I am going to use this only for the exit menu option linking it to Esc instead of Amiga+Q.

Originally Posted by Warty

Will the keyboard shortcut detection work though, for something other than Amiga key?