separators in ring control

[Wolfgang]

One nice feature of menu bars is their capability of grouping different items using a separator.

Having ring controls with many text entries it would be nice from a user perspective if these many entries also could be grouped using one or more separators.

What would be also convenient is the ability to dim or hide a specified entry; right now it is possible to rebuild the ring programmatically with one or several entries less (or more), but this is some overhead that could be minimized by simply hiding or showing an indexed entry.

[Laura F.]

prior status deleted, setting to default

[jared]

You can add a separator to a ring control. The help for the Item Label parameter of InsertListItem says....

To insert a separator bar into a ring control (ring, menu ring, recessed menu ring, or pop-up menu ring), specify the escape code \033m- as the itemLabel parameter. The following code inserts a separator bar between two items.

InsertListItem (handle, ctrlID, 0, "Item1", 0);
InsertListItem (handle, ctrlID, 1, "\033m-", 1);
InsertListItem (handle, ctrlID, 2, "Item2", 2);

The first item in a list cannot be a separator bar. 

[Wolfgang]

Hi jared,

I have not been able to insert a separator bar into a ring control using the UI editor. Obviously, this can be done only programmatically.

[LuisG]

Yes, it can only be done programmatically. Sorry...

Luis

[Wolfgang]

Luis,

you don't have to be sorry - but the missing feature is the reason I have suggested it...

[Wolfgang]

I'd like to slightly extend the above suggestion: It might also be useful to have different line types for the separator, i.e. not only a solid line, but also a dashed line: This would help to group different entries into groups (solid line) and subgroups (dashed line).

Thanks.