How to construct a popup Menu with Icons and text

[GerrieF]

How can I use the popupMenuXY to construct a contextual menu with buttons and Cascade buttons having an icon as well as a text label?
This is done for the Gedi menu bar, but I am unable to find an example for the construction.

[gschijndel]

There is a hidden feature, which makes it possible to set a 'popup' flag for child panels. If this flag is set the child panel is closed if a mouse click occurs outside the child panel.
Perhaps 3.18 contains an example using this 'popup' flag.

[GerrieF]

Thank you for your reply to my post!

[GerrieF]

There is a hidden feature, which makes it possible to set a 'popup' flag for child panels. If this flag is set the child panel is closed if a mouse click occurs outside the child panel.
Perhaps 3.18 contains an example using this 'popup' flag.

Thank you for your reply to my post!

Can you tell me a little more about the hidden "popup" flag?

I am fairly new to OA and I am trying to construct a contextual menu for a client's CMS system based on Google Material design guidelines.

My problem is that I cannot add the icons to the buttons when I create the menu using "popupMenyXY".
Any help on this will greatly be appreciated.

[leoknipp]

In the upcoming version 3.18 a new reference object (objects/popupMenu/MenuButton.pnl) is available which can open a popup menu with text and icon.
You can possibly wait for the release of 3.18 and then have a look at the new reference object.

Best Regards
Leopold Knipp
Senior Support Specialist

[GerrieF]

In the upcoming version 3.18 a new reference object (objects/popupMenu/MenuButton.pnl) is available which can open a popup menu with text and icon.
You can possibly wait for the release of 3.18 and then have a look at the new reference object.

Best Regards
Leopold Knipp
Senior Support Specialist

Good day Leopold
Thank you for this reply.
Do you know when version 3.18 will be released?

[leoknipp]

The release of 3.18 is planned for May 2021.
Information for the future releases you can find in the following pdf document:
https://www.winccoa.com/downloads/detai ... 14b76451d0

Best Regards
Leopold Knipp
Senior Support Specialist

[emanuel.b]

Hello,

I was searching for something similiar too and found the solution with that "hidden feature" (see the windowFlags -> Popup below), see following snippet.

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  int x, y;
  getValue(this, "position", x, y); // just an example ...
  dyn_string dollars = makeDynString(); // whatever to pass ...
  
  dyn_anytype da = makeDynAnytype(myModuleName(), "yourPanelToShow.xml", myPanelName(), "somePanelName",  
                                  x, y , 1.0, true, dollars, false, makeMapping("windowFlags", "Popup"));

  dyn_anytype results;
  childPanel(da, results);

BR
Emanuel

[GerrieF]

Hello,

I was searching for something similiar too and found the solution with that "hidden feature" (see the windowFlags -> Popup below), see following snippet.

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  int x, y;
  getValue(this, "position", x, y); // just an example ...
  dyn_string dollars = makeDynString(); // whatever to pass ...
  
  dyn_anytype da = makeDynAnytype(myModuleName(), "yourPanelToShow.xml", myPanelName(), "somePanelName",  
                                  x, y , 1.0, true, dollars, false, makeMapping("windowFlags", "Popup"));

  dyn_anytype results;
  childPanel(da, results);

BR
Emanuel

This will work great if I create a child panel, thanks.
I will defiantly keep this in mind for the design.

[tpjctrl]

Hello,

I was searching for something similiar too and found the solution with that "hidden feature" (see the windowFlags -> Popup below), see following snippet.

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  int x, y;
  getValue(this, "position", x, y); // just an example ...
  dyn_string dollars = makeDynString(); // whatever to pass ...
  
  dyn_anytype da = makeDynAnytype(myModuleName(), "yourPanelToShow.xml", myPanelName(), "somePanelName",  
                                  x, y , 1.0, true, dollars, false, makeMapping("windowFlags", "Popup"));

  dyn_anytype results;
  childPanel(da, results);

BR
Emanuel

Thanks for this example Emanuel, the only issue with this solution when creating context menus is the fact that a click outside the child panel is required to close it, but that click in itself is a "wasted" click. For example, say you create a main menu with a few main buttons and each one of those opens a context menu created using the above code (so with the popup windowFlag). If you click on one of the main menu buttons, a popup / context menu panel is shown (with whatever you want in it, it can contain buttons with icons + text for example), but if you then click on another main menu button to navigate the main menu, the only thing that will happen is the previously open context menu closing. So you need to click again on the main menu button you've selected to "open" that one, then you need to click away outside the context menu to close it, click another main menu button to "open" that one and so on...So basically it now requires two clicks to operate the menu which is counter intuitive and something you don't get with the "built in" context menu available via popupMenuXY.

Or is there a way to somehow bypass this behavior?