API does not allow custom keybindings in menu

[lovebug356]

The current API does not allow to create custom keybindings in the menu. The current API only allows to create a custom menubar subtree. Keybindings are hardcoded in the menubar view.

[gyscos]

Ah indeed! The menubar is clearly not the most flexible part so far. I'd love to make it more modular and customizable. I haven't thought much about it, so I don't have a clear design yet - if you have any idea of what it would be like, I'm open to suggestions!

I think things could be improved if the menubar was treated more like a regular view that you could wrap in an OnEventView, so it'd be easier to add custom bindings. Maybe start with a default menubar, but let the user define his own replacement view?...

Or expose enough features to let users re-implement the entire menubar system as regular layers.

[lovebug356]

I'm not that familiar with the Cursive API yet. I was indeed expecting that I could wrap the existing menubar and intercept on_event. I like the idea that the menubar is special View. Cursive could provide a basic implementation that can be extended by the user (or completely re-implemented).

I was not aware that a lot of helper functionality (like OnEventView) already exists, Nice :-)

[crioux]

This would be good. I would like to implement things like "Alt-F" to open the file menu, with the "File" title tagged as "&File" to say what hotkey opens it. I can't add this functionality without forking Cursive today.