Re: UIManager and dynamic menus

[Frank Naumann <fnaumann boerde de>]

Hello!

> For me, I'll be using this from within a plugin context, so each
> plugin will get handed a UIManagerMerge object, and add what it needs
> to the ui.  Then when the plugin goes away, all of its menu stuff goes
> away cleanly as well.  The only thing I can't get around is the path
> issue.  As it is, I'd have to make each of my plugins 'know' the path
> through the ui stuff.  I did think about making it so that the
> UIManagerMerge object could get constructed with a base path, so that
> all additions get put below a certain path, but that ixnay's the
> ability to add to multiple menus in the UI.
>
> I'll work on fleshing this out a bit more, if anyone else has some
> insights, feel free to shout out.  I'll post some code when I get to
> that point.

I use add_ui_from_string() and remove_ui() and for me it's very easy. I 
use it for a recent file submenu (e.g. File -> Recent Files -> 1: ..., 
2:...).

I pass the path head and tail to the object that manage the recent files. 
On merge it construct then the ui string dynamically. So it can be used at 
any place in the ui.


Regards,
Frank