Making a menu editable.
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I'm toying with the idea of using 'virtual' menu items to allow a user to configure a menu. When placed in an 'edit mode', each real menu item will get extra 'virtual' child items such as 'Add Child', 'Add Above', 'Add Below', etc. which will bring up a dialogue for configuring the menu item. Any thoughts on this approach?
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I'm toying with the idea of using 'virtual' menu items to allow a user to configure a menu. When placed in an 'edit mode', each real menu item will get extra 'virtual' child items such as 'Add Child', 'Add Above', 'Add Below', etc. which will bring up a dialogue for configuring the menu item. Any thoughts on this approach?
Brady Kelly wrote:
Any thoughts on this approach?
Works for the Windows Forms designer.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
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Brady Kelly wrote:
Any thoughts on this approach?
Works for the Windows Forms designer.
Deja View - the feeling that you've seen this post before.
Personally I hate the menu editor as it sits today. It is a real pain in the butt to use when you need to build them menu and then go back and set properties on it, etc... Just a big pain. I am a much bigger fan of the interface used for edit toolbar buttons really. Just give me a separate window with a tree view and a property grid. Seems much more effective that using in-place editing for the menu items. Just MHO.
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Personally I hate the menu editor as it sits today. It is a real pain in the butt to use when you need to build them menu and then go back and set properties on it, etc... Just a big pain. I am a much bigger fan of the interface used for edit toolbar buttons really. Just give me a separate window with a tree view and a property grid. Seems much more effective that using in-place editing for the menu items. Just MHO.
My bad not stating it's an ASP.NET menu control I want to make editable, so it already renders a left hand, vertical tree structure that I would like to use for editing, also with a property page in the main pane.