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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: create large menu on the fly
Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 21:05:18 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv4ndaohqu.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CABX3oxZ-=QEmykLGz-G5EQ=PYR1XtjSEqDB3zriCWVXFqFM77A@mail.gmail.com

> So the solution would be to populate each menu only when it is activated.
> Any idea how to do this?

Oddly enough, Emacs's current C code can't do that: the C code traverses
the whole menu, turns it into a new data-structure using the format
expected by the UI toolkit, and passes it to the toolkit.

It would be good to change that such that the conversion from Lisp
format to the toolkit format is done incrementally via callbacks, but
it's a longstanding limitation that nobody has felt like tackling yet.


        Stefan




  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-07  1:05 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 [this message]
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

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