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	2-line menu and right-aligned images ¶
2005/03/03 20:59 Viewed 6184 times Replies: 1/3 by ykamsha	Hi, I've downloaded the evaluation version yesterday to see whether it's suitable for our application. I have to say it's very impressive, however there some features we need (below) that are not supported (which makes sense as I imagine they're not requested that often). My understanding is that source code is available in licensed version (developer's license) and I am allowed to modify it to fit our purposes. The question is how easy it is to modify? The features that we need are: - top-level menu consisting of 2 lines instead of one (which implies I would have to change both layout and keyboard navigation). - icons in top-level menu aligned to the right of the label (I imagine this one should be easy enough). Is source code in evaluation version representative of how the actual source code looks (disregarding the encryption, of course), e.g. one big eval() statement? Thank you.

	Re: 2-line menu and right-aligned images ¶
2005/03/03 21:32 Viewed 8502 times Replies: 1/2 by Mihai Bazon	Hi, I've downloaded the evaluation version yesterday to see whether it's suitable for our application. I have to say it's very impressive, however there some features we need (below) that are not supported (which makes sense as I imagine they're not requested that often). My understanding is that source code is available in licensed version (developer's license) and I am allowed to modify it to fit our purposes. Yes; the source is "compressed" though in the developer license (meaning therer's no indentation, no comments and no whitespace). You get fully readable sources in the library license. The question is how easy it is to modify? Depending on what you need, this is a tough question... The features that we need are: - top-level menu consisting of 2 lines instead of one (which implies I would have to change both layout and keyboard navigation). If you simply need 2 menus, you could easily achieve this. But if, for instance, you need the second row to change depending on what item is selected in the first row, then things get difficult--in other words, yes, DynarchMenu doesn't support this as of now. - icons in top-level menu aligned to the right of the label (I imagine this one should be easy enough). Is source code in evaluation version representative of how the actual source code looks (disregarding the encryption, of course), e.g. one big eval() statement? This isn't supported either, but modification should be trivial.
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	Re[2]: 2-line menu and right-aligned images ¶
2005/03/03 21:48 Viewed 10690 times Replies: 1/1 by ykamsha	Thank you very much for the reply. > The features that we need are: > - top-level menu consisting of 2 lines instead of one (which implies > I would have to change both layout and keyboard navigation). > If you simply need 2 menus, you could easily achieve this. > But if, for instance, you need the second row to change > depending on what item is selected in the first row, then things > get difficult--in other words, yes, DynarchMenu doesn't support this as of now. We don't need 2 menus, we need 1 menu that spans 2 lines. (I understand that might sound like a dumb requirement, but unfortunately it is a requirement and there are objective reasons for doing this I won't go into). So it looks something like: "Menu Item1" "Menu Item2" "Menu Item3" "Menu Item4" "Menu Item5" "Menu Item6" "Menu Item7" "Menu Item8" Judging from your reply I need to get "library" license which will provide me with readable source code. I would then have to modify keyboard navigation handler as well as layout logic to support this - I'm just trying to find out how hard it's going to be. Another department in my company bought Milonic menus and adding keyboard navigation to them was such a pain that they gave up and wrote their own (very simplistic and limited) menu. I don't want to repeat the same mistake. Thank you again.
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