Re: [PATCH] Popup menu

[Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Jonas Fonseca <jonas.fonseca@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 12:40, Giuseppe Bilotta
> <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Make the menu into a popup window that complements the status prompt.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Giuseppe Bilotta <giuseppe.bilotta@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>
>> We should probably consider using the high-level menu and panel features from
>> ncurses if we want to do anything more complex.
>
> First of all very cute. I take it as a comment that the menu thing I
> added yesterday leaves a lot to be desired. :) I certainly agree it is
> limited and would have liked to make it similar to Vim's horizontal
> menu, but gave up when it got too complicated.

I wouldn't say your implementation left _a lot_ to be desired, but I
found it to be somewhat uninformative on the available options, which
is why I tried this route instead.

> About using the menu, panel and maybe even the form library: Yes, it
> might make sense but then again I had also hoped to maybe at some
> point try to get tig running on just the terminfo interface. But I
> don't know if there is any compelling reason for doing this anymore,
> other than reducing the dependencies a bit.

If reducing dependencies means having to reimplement most of them from
scratch, it might not be worth it so much ;-)

> BTW, the code doesn't handle resizing or background loading (try
> starting with `tig --stat` and immediately press 'o'). To fix this I
> don't know if it would be better to "rip off" the status window and
> use this as the menu window. It would require a few flags to make the
> resize code do the right thing.

I was pretty sure resizing would bomb it, but I hadn't thought about
background loading at all, I'll see if I can think about it a little.

> tig.c: In function 'menu_select':
> tig.c:6629: warning: unused variable 'width'
> tig.c:6628: warning: unused variable 'win'

Oops, leftovers, I'll clean them up.

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta