wxMenuToolBar - Pop-up menus inside of wxToolBar

[paulcomposer]

Hey All:

I've completed a "wxMenuToolBar", derived from wxToolBar, it implements pop-up menus within toolbars. Two things it does pretty well: 1) The menu pops up immediately on left-mouse down and menu items can be selected on left-mouse up, and 2) the menu positioning is directly below the toolbar.

The first type of button looks like a regular tool bar button, and pops up a menu when clicked.

The second type of button looks like a small black downwards triangle (ala the Firefox toolbar) and pops up a menu when clicked.

The files have been tested in both MAC and MSW, and a sample program is provided.

Check it out: http://pnelsoncomposer.com/software/wxMenuToolBar/

It also has a nice, simple wxMenuButton, which can be used anywhere you'd have a standard wxBitmapButton. It displays the small downwards triangle and pops up a menu when clicked.

Cheers!
Paul

[Troels]

Excellent! Very useful, in many/most applications.

A few suggestions:
- Adding DECLARE/IMPLEMENT_DYNAMIC_CLASS, to enable use with xrc
- Larger arrow (pulldown_xpm), it's probably hard to see on high resolution displays
- Regular button-like behaviour/appearance: the button in the form (next to the "Some text" edit box) cannot be navigated to using the keyboard, cannot get focus.

With these issues fixed wxMenuToolBar would be a natural addition to wx I think.

Regards

[paulcomposer]

With these issues fixed wxMenuToolBar would be a natural addition to wx I think.

Thanks! I will definitely look into doing these right away. They don't look that hard.

Paul

[Troels]

Pop-up/drop-down-menu is in wx2.9
wxToolBar.SetDropdownMenu()