[GRASS-dev] Re: Add addon menu files to Tcl GUI menu?

[Michael Barton]

William,

I don't currently have a way to get these into gmmenu.tcl in such a way as
to have them show up on a Mac but not be a problem on other systems that
don't have this new feature. Do you have any suggestions along these lines?

Michael


On 9/4/07 8:48 AM, "William Kyngesburye" <woklist at kyngchaos.com> wrote:

> Something that got pushed back in my head, I'd like to get this in
> the 6.3 release.  I have the OSX app startup generating tcl menu
> files (similar to GEM menu files) for the OSX addon folders.  Can you
> get these into gmmenu.tcl?
> 
> OSX app addon menus are in:
> 
> $HOME/Library/GRASS/$GRASS_VER/Modules/etc/gm/addons
> 
> where $GRASS_VER is the major.minor version of the running GRASS.
> They are named with a .menu extension and are generated automatically
> on startup.  I'm thinking there should also be a user-customizable
> menu that won't get zapped on every startup, maybe etc/gm/user.menu.
> 
> When you settle on a way to extend the python gui menu, I'll do a
> similar thing for that.
> 
> -----
> William Kyngesburye <kyngchaos*at*kyngchaos*dot*com>
> http://www.kyngchaos.com/
> 
> All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
> 
> 

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