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BaldieJr
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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 Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2004 9:51 pm Post subject: Dynamic tray menu from ini (was in Scripts forum) |
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Maybe I'm missing something, but I cant seem to loop through an Ini to build a tray menu. Any help would be appreciated.
Ini:
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[Menu1]
Name=FirstMenuItem
Path=C:\Path\to\Notepad.exe
[Menu2]
Name=SecondMenuItem
Path=C:\Path\to\Calculator.exe
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Script:
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inifile = conf.ini
Loop
{
IniRead, name, %inifile%, Menu%A_Index%, Name
if name = ERROR
{
break
}
IniRead, path, %inifile%, Menu%A_Index%, Path
menu, tray, add, %name%
%name%:
Run, %path%
}
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I'm sure I am doing this all wrong. Thanks in advance. |
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BaldieJr
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 2:53 am Post subject: |
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| This is much tougher to crack than I initially thought. Unless I'm overlooking somthing, there appears to be no way to create a label on-the-fly. |
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Guest
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| Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 4:18 am Post subject: |
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I am using temp and "bridge files" to build or update my menus.
One file with the first menu section ( all menu,mymenu,add,blabla...menu
mymenu,show...)and another file with the second section(labels and
actions).
A Loop,read,"bridge files","temp file" to filter what you want to remove or
to add new items.And Loop,read, "temp files",menu.ahk to build the menu
It is not elegant,but it is working. |
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Guest
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| Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 4:20 am Post subject: |
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| Forgot to mention: Loop,Read...used with FileAppend command |
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Chris
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Joined: 02 Mar 2004
Posts: 10467
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| Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 5:43 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | This is much tougher to crack than I initially thought. Unless I'm overlooking somthing, there appears to be no way to create a label on-the-fly. |
Although you can't create labels dynamically, you can use the build-in variables A_ThisMenuItem and A_ThisMenu to determine which menu item the user selected. To make use of this, make all your menu items point to the same label. Then have a series of else-if's to determine what action to take.
In other words, when you add your menu items in a loop, do it this way:
menu, tray, add, %name%, MenuHandler
Then have the MenuHandler label *outside* the loop:
Loop
{
...
}
...
return
MenuHandler:
MsgBox You selected %A_ThisMenuItem% from the menu %A_ThisMenu%.
return |
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BaldieJr
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
Posts: 23
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| Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 7:46 am Post subject: |
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Thanks Chris, that works quite well.
For some reason or other, I misunderstood the docs concerning menus. I did not realize that the menu name did not have to be the same as the label name.
Once this was understood, it became quite easy. Again, thanks a lot!
Example for posterity:
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inifile = conf.ini
#Persistent
menu, tray, add, ;sep
Loop
{
IniRead, name, %inifile%, Menu%A_Index%, Name
if name = ERROR
{
break
}
menu, tray, add, %name%, MenuHandler
}
return
MenuHandler:
Loop
{
IniRead, name, %inifile%, Menu%A_Index%, Name
if name = %A_ThisMenuItem%
{
IniRead, path, %inifile%, Menu%A_Index%, Path
break
}
}
Run, %path%
return
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Chris
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Joined: 02 Mar 2004
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| Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 12:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | I did not realize that the menu name did not have to be the same as the label name. |
Yes, the docs are not clear enough about this, so I'm adding some material. Thanks for mentioning it. |
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