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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: daniel <idnael@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: create large menu on the fly
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 18:54:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877gi5j1z8.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABX3oxZ-=QEmykLGz-G5EQ=PYR1XtjSEqDB3zriCWVXFqFM77A@mail.gmail.com> (daniel's message of "Thu, 6 Jun 2013 22:36:24 +0100")

Hi Daniel,

as Stefan already said, it's not possible using the ordinary menu bar.

As a makeshift, you could use popup menus that contain e.g. only 3
directory levels, and selecting a directory at the third level pops up
a new popup menu with the next three levels under it etc.


Michael.


> I want to create a menu that maps a directory in the filesystem
> recursively.  The files would placed as menu itens and the directories as
> submenus.
>
> But it is a big overhead to create the complete menu in one time.
>
> So the solution would be to populate each menu only when it is activated.
> Any idea how to do this?





      parent reply	other threads:[~2013-06-07 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-06 21:36 create large menu on the fly daniel
2013-06-07  1:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-06-07  5:50 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-06-07  9:19   ` daniel
2013-06-07 10:13     ` Andreas Röhler
2013-06-07 10:26       ` daniel
2013-06-07 10:57         ` Andreas Röhler
2013-06-07 11:26           ` daniel
2013-06-07 11:59             ` Andreas Röhler
2013-06-07 16:54 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]

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