Have I gone MAD (Menu Question)

Hey BoRiS,

nice to have you back. Where have you been so long?

To answer your question:

1) Start with TInitFile.ReadSections to get your main menu items and
2) Use ReadSectionValues for each section to retrive the entries there

Both methods return a TStrings (use a TStringList there) filled up with the values.


Ciao, Mike

Hi Walter

Thanx for the comment but that is just creating a popupmenu on the fly with set items, this needs to be dynamic for instance I can add the the .ini file at any time and the app will add the menu items...

Hi Mike
Thank you, I have been hard at work, coding wee hours into the night ;-)

I use what you suggested already and it works fine for main items (ReadSections)
but my problem is the subitems it either gives all the main items the same subitems (item1 to 3) or all the main items have all the subitems in one list (item1 to 6)

Am I missing something here¿¿¿

Later
BoRiS

this might help u out

http://www.gnomehome.demon.nl/uddf/pages/menu.htm

???? Walter's code correctly creates popup sub-items, so why not simply substitiute Walter's fixed strings with the ones you read from the ini?

God Ares

Thanx for the link, not what I'm looking for but has some interesting stuff ;-)

Later
BoRiS

Mullet attack

Mmmmm I've tried this, but let me check again maybe I ***ked it up...

Later
BoRiS

Mmh, I don't understand your problem, BoRiS. When you have read the section values into a list then you can simply iterate over it like:

ReadSections;
for each section do
  create a section menu item as you already did;
  for I := 0 to SectionEntries.Count -1 do
  begin
    Item := NewItem(SectionEntries[I], 0, False, True, IconClick, 0, '');
    Item.Tag := I;
    Item.ImageIndex := I;
    SectionItem.Add(Item);
  end;

Ciao, Mike

Mullet attack

My appologies to you and Walter, it seems as though I did ***k it up the first time I tried it...

here is the code if anyone is interested

procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
var
I, M: integer;
IList, MList: TStringlist;
TestIni: TIniFile;
begin
IList := TStringList.Create;
MList := TStringList.Create;
 TestIni := TIniFile.Create('Junxion.ini');
  TestIni.ReadSections(IList);
   for I := 0 to IList.Count-1 do begin
    PopupMenu1.Items.Add(TMenuItem.Create(PopupMenu1));
    PopupMenu1.Items[I].Caption := IList.Strings[I];
     TestIni.ReadSection(IList.Strings[I], MList);
      for M := 0 to MList.Count-1 do begin
       PopupMenu1.Items[I].Add(TMenuItem.Create(PopupMenu1));
       PopupMenu1.Items[I].Items[M].Caption := MList.Strings[M];
      end;
   end;
end;

Walter I will give the points after I have posted this comment...

Thanx everyone, I had an involuntrily lapse of reason ;-)

Later
BoRiS

Mike

Like I said I had an involuntrily lapse of reason (or a blonde moment, no offense to the blondes), maybe I should go get some sleep or something...

Later
BoRiS

BoRiS,

Thanks for the points, I was in the process of drafting another reply when your acceptance came through. My amended code is almost identical to yours except I've included a bit to split the section value at the '='.

Thought I'd pass it anyway.

procedure TForm1.FormCreate(Sender: TObject);
var
  Ini: TIniFile;
  Sections, Values: TStringList;
  C1, C2: word;
  S: string;
begin
  Sections := TStringList.Create;
  Values := TStringList.Create;
  Ini := TIniFile.Create('D:\Program Files\Borland\Delphi4\Projects\Test.ini');
  Ini.ReadSections(Sections);
  for C1 := 0 to Sections.Count - 1 do
    begin
      { Create the  sections in the Popup menu }
      PopupMenu.Items.Add(TMenuItem.Create(PopupMenu));
      PopupMenu.Items[C1].Caption := Sections.Strings[C1];
      Ini.ReadSectionValues(Sections.Strings[C1], Values);
      for C2 := 0 to Values.Count - 1 do
        begin
          PopupMenu.Items[C1].Add(TMenuItem.Create(PopupMenu));
          { Use the Value name as the menu item caption, i.e before the '=' }
          S := Values.Strings[C2];
          { Change the next line if the caption is to be got from after the '=' }
          Delete(S, Pos('=', S),  Length(S) - Pos('=', S) + 1);
          PopupMenu.Items[C1].Items[C2].Caption := S;
        end;
      Values.Clear;
    end;
  Ini.Free;
  Sections.Free;
  Values.Free;
end;

Sweet dreams .....

Walter