On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Jeff Hostetler wrote:
>
> At 10:28 AM 7/16/99 +0000, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> >I've been trying to implement menu items for view modes. I've followed
> >everything that I can find in the source, but it still doesn't seem to
> >work. So, it would be nice if someone who knows what they're doing
> >could put this at the beginning of the view menu:
> >
> >Page Layout
> >Normal
> >Outline
> ><seperator>
> >
> >...
>
> i'm not sure where you are or what you've tried so far, but
> here's a quick summary of what you need to do to update the menu bar.
>
> define the AP_MENU_ID_{...} ids in abi/src/wp/ap/xp/ap_Menu_Id.h
> (this defines the symbols)
>
> add the necessary lines in ap_Menu_Layouts_MainMenu.h
> (this adds them to the menu layout)
>
> add bindings for the ids in ap_Menu_ActionSet.cpp
> (this maps an id to an EditMethods, a state callback, status
> bar text, and contains some property bits to describe how
> the item should be drawn)
>
> create the necessary EV_GetMenuItemState_Fn's in ap_Menu_Functions.{h,cpp}
> (these functions are used to dynamically compute the decoration/state of
> the menu item (for example on win32, in response to the WM_INITMENU msg))
>
> create the necessary EditMethods in ap_EditMethods.cpp
> (these are called (by name) in response to the actual menu item selection)
>
> i know that this sounds complicated, but the result will automagically
> work on all 3 platforms.... :-)
>
> hope this helps
> jeff
>
> ps. perhaps we should add this text to the FAQ...
>