[Q] has anyone created a keyboard-powered (up/down arrows) menu-system with canvas/drawing?

[Madd0g]

I know about chooser (I would use that if it wasn't search-oriented).

I put a bunch of things in a regular hs.menubar and it mostly worked great for me, but menus appear to be very special in the way they're blocking input (accessibility tools couldn't send keys to it), so I'm looking for alternatives to:

• display a list of things, attach callbacks to each item
• navigate the list with keyboard keys
• [bonus] disabled items
• [bonus] checkboxes
• [bonus] separators
• [bonus] sub-lists (submenus)

Thanks

[asmagill]

Is it just Hammerspoon created menus that don't work with the accessibility tools you're using? Or all "extra" menus?

And what accessibility tools are you referring to? Hammerspoon built ones or third party?

I have a possible menubar replacement module for Hammerspoon that I'm hoping to get to work on again in December or so that addresses some of my issues with the existing module (e.g. being able to change the menu items while it is open, create submenus as needed as opposed to pre-populating them when populating the main list, recognizing variant items when modifiers held down (like the Finder's file menu when you press Option), etc.)

One of the things I remember being an issue was that hs.timer was queued such that it was blocked while a menu was open, but hs.eventtap wasn't... I think I know the fix, but that's the kind of thing I want to revisit before submitting the module for review... If the issue is only with Hammerspoon menus, and if you can give me more details of specifically what isn't working for you, I may be able to add it to my tests and see if we can find a work around for it in the replacement module.

[Madd0g]

One of the things I remember being an issue was that hs.timer was queued such that it was blocked while a menu was open, but hs.eventtap wasn't

the things that didn't work for me:

• TalonVoice - voice command software recommended by trishume, doesn't register ANY command while menu is open
• Hammerspoon - sending down/up arrow with hs.eventtap.event.newKeyEvent doesn't work

Is it just Hammerspoon created menus [...] Or all "extra" menus?

not sure what you mean by extra, if you mean menus created by other apps (not os default), then they don't have this keyboard nav issue.