Combobox widget

[linux-man]

What's the better way for emulate a combobox? The only thing that occurs to me is to use a menu->menu.items to select an option, and change menu text accordingly.

[airstruck]

I intended to add a dedicated dropdown widget at some point, but never got around to it. What you're describing should work, I think. You can put any kind of widget in a menu, not just a menu item, so you should be able to get a text box in there if you need a combobox and not just a dropdown. I don't know how well it's actually going to work; I haven't tried to do it yet. Let me know how it goes. ;)

[linux-man]

Next question: create a dynamic submenu.

    local f = layout:createWidget({type = 'menu.item', text = 'Options'})
    layout.rootMenu:addChild(f)

creates a menu item, but I can't figure how to create sub-items. I was thinking of populating an empty parent menu.

[airstruck]

Dynamic menu items would probably need a special API, there's some funky stuff going on behind the scenes there. For now you should be able to rebuild the menu each time it's opened something like this:

local Layout = require 'luigi.layout'

local menu = { isContextMenu = true }

menu[#menu + 1] = { text = 'thing one' }
menu[#menu + 1] = { text = 'thing two' }

yourMainLayout:createWidget { type = 'menu', menu }
menu.menuLayout:show() -- or :placeNear

[linux-man]

This code works.

layout.button:onPress(function (event)
    local menu = { isContextMenu = true }
    for n = 1, 4 do
        menu[#menu + 1] = {text = 'thing '..n}
    end
    layout:createWidget({type = 'menu', menu })
    menu.menuLayout:onPress(function (event) layout.button.text = event.target.text end)
    menu.menuLayout:placeNear(layout.button:getX(), layout.button:getY() + layout.button:getHeight())
    menu.menuLayout:show()  
end)

[linux-man]

I finally finished my dialog boxes. Can you take a look at https://github.com/linux-man/lovefs ? The only "bug" I found was that you have to click OVER the text on the dropdown menus, otherwise the event.target.text is empty.

[airstruck]

I think the "bug" is caused by the event target not being the menu item itself, but a child of it (some children of menu items are automatically created for icons, keyboard shortcut labels, maybe a spacer). I had planned to introduce some kind of "no-target" widget attribute to make this more intuitive, but for now you might have to walk up the target's ancestor tree until you find the widget you're looking for, something like this.

[airstruck]

Here's something else you might be interested in: https://love2d.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=82442