Menu Upgrades

[falkpl]

A few upgrades to  runtime menus would be nice.

1.  Allow for visibility on menu items.  Currently there is only the ability to disable or delete a menu option.  Disable is not often what is needed but deleting a menu item requires rebuilding the menu programatically.  Why not just have a show hide property on each menu item.

2.  Allow for a glyph/icon to be added to a menu item.  This is similar to list boxes.  The advantage here is that a psuedo-toolbar could easily be created using a menu.  Also modern menue systems are adding this feature so me should have it in our toolbox as well.

3.  Allow for detachable menus.  This could be a stretch to ask for since it is more difficult to implement.

[Laura F.]

Hi falkpl,

I received a suggestion to break #3 above into its own separate idea.  Would you like to post it as a separate idea and I can delete #3 from this idea?

Thanks,

Laura
Web Support & Operations
National Instruments

[falkpl]

Yes this is almost a tangent idea (not as important to me as the first two more simple ideas) so it could be moved to a seperate thread.

[bruno_costa]

I suggest one more ability. I would like the the option to customize an application menu string to translate for other languages.