cairoshell
Is it possible "global menu" for Cairo?
Hi, Is it possible to make a "global menu" for cairo If such a thing is possible, it will be very useful for cairo. Please add this feature, tanks...
What do you mean by a "Global Menu"? I don't really understand what you wanted to require.
You could add an image made in paint or any other program to better illustrate your idea.
The request is to get the current window's menu bar component and mirror it on the top of Cairoshell's top panel. I like the idea, but it is difficult:
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It requires getting the handles of the original menu bar, get its children, and copy each feature.
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It requires removing the menu bar component from the original window, which will prevent the application to directly access it.
2a. To fix this, instead of removing the component from the window, we would need to hide it, hook each menu's entry for incoming messages and handle every message received.
- What about switching to another application? We would need to release the former windows' hooks, scan the next window and handle each new hooks.
3a. We could cache the menu bars by using a map (hwnd as the key, a managed menu bar object as the value) but memory management would be a pain, since it would be more than double of the amount of memory that is used to manage menus)
