Dynamic captions for menus

[jburnett]

I just wrote a command intended to go in the context menu. Is it possible to make the caption dynamic (not animated, just custom each time the menu is built for display)?

[jps]

This isn't exposed to Python yet, will add for the next dev build.

[jburnett]

Awesome, can't wait! I'd imagine this could be used for labeling the file MRU list too

[jburnett]

Tried it, it works great. There's a small issue with it when using it on the main menus on Windows though - the flyout menu width grows to fit the text, but never shrinks again. e.g. try this in a menu:

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import sublime, sublime_plugin
foo = True
class test(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
    def description(self):
        global foo
        foo = not foo
        return "*" * 120 if foo else "i'm small"


It works properly for context menus though. Thanks again!

[Judah]

What about dynamic content for a menu? It would be great if we could supply a builder that would generate menu items when the menu is posted, similar to how the recent files list is generated, etc.

thanks,
-Judah

[jps]

The recent files menu isn't actually dynamically generated, some of the items are just hidden, and you can do the same thing from Python. The menu looks like

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{ "command": "open_recent_file", "args": {"index": 0 } },
{ "command": "open_recent_file", "args": {"index": 1 } },
{ "command": "open_recent_file", "args": {"index": 2 } },
...


The open_recent_file command implements is_visible(self, index) (which plugins can also do), and uses this to give the appearance of a dynamic menu.

[jburnett]

The open_recent_file command implements is_visible(self, index) (which plugins can also do), and uses this to give the appearance of a dynamic menu.

Could the open_recent_file command be changed so it has a description(self) implementation that returns "<N> - <filepath>", where N is the index + 1? Then change the menu file to have corresponding mnemonics? "alt+f,r,<number>" is a handy key combo