[9fans] control(2), createmenu and event(2)-style menues

["Sascha Retzki" <sretzki@gmx.de>]

Hi,

I want to write a GUI which displays audiodata - I would like the user to be able to select commands based on an 'event-style' rightclick-menue - basicly gview.c for foo.wav. 

As some of those commands require selections which could be easily done via radio-buttons for example, I came to the conclusion that control(2) is the way to go.


Unfortunetly, I cannot make createmenu() work - and I cannot include event.h alongside control(2) :)

So, I'd like to start with this one:
Is createmenu() like the right-click menue presented by event.h? I did not yet find any code in the distribution which actually uses that, but maybe I am blind.


Here is a pseudo-like version of my test-code, maybe you can point me to the right direction:

	Control *menue;

	initdraw(0, 0, "DAE [main]");
	initcontrols();

	cs = newcontrolset(screen, nil, nil, nil);

	menue = createmenu(cs,"daemenue");
	chanprint(cs->ctl,"daemenue add bl0b");

	activate(menue);
	resizecontrolset(cs);		// calls getwindow() with Refbackup

	for(;;) {
		read the channel
		tokenize
		print() the message because this is test-code
	}


Anything obviously wrong?


With best regards, Sascha