Main menu

[Stefan Glienke 2002]

Might it be worth considering restructuring the Main menu which is getting longer and longer and organize the items in sub items to clean it up?

[Anders Melander 1777]

They can start by getting rid of the Refactor menu - and that might also improve the stability of the IDE.

[dummzeuch 1505]

I think you are talking about different "main menus" here. 😉

 

@Stefan Glienke Yes, it's getting larger (which annoys me too sometimes), but do you really use all the experts? You could simply disable those you don't use which removes them from the menu.

 

Organizing it into submenus would be a major change since currently the menu is built by enumerating all the experts and adding an entry for all that are active.

 

Feel free to submit a feature request though. One day I might get bored enough to do it or maybe somebody else does it and submits a patch.

 

[Stefan Glienke 2002]

Nah, in fact I only use a fraction of what GExperts offers, I just cba to disable those that I don't need.

[Anders Melander 1777]

Oh... This is the GExperts sub forum...

I didn't notice that so I actually thought you meant the IDE main menu (which is what I was talking about). Well then, pls ignore what I said.

[Fr0sT.Brutal 899]

15 hours ago, Anders Melander said:

They can start by getting rid of the Refactor menu - and that might also improve the stability of the IDE.

You can rename/remove refactoride###.bpl file

[Anders Melander 1777]

1 hour ago, Fr0sT.Brutal said:

You can rename/remove refactoride###.bpl file

Yes but that also removes the stuff I use and which actually works (mostly): "Find References" and "Rename".

[Guest]

@Anders Melander, we should maybe start another thread, in andother sub-forum, but i have also made that mistake when reading and commenting. The sub-forum name is IMHO visually too suppressed.

[dummzeuch 1505]

1 hour ago, Dany Marmur said:

@Anders Melander, we should maybe start another thread, in andother sub-forum

Actually: It should be easy for yet another expert (yet another GExperts menu entry 😉) to hide some of the menu entries of the IDE. Or, since there is already an expert for changing the menu shortcuts of the IDE, it could be extended to also allow hiding those entries.

23 hours ago, Anders Melander said:

and that might also improve the stability of the IDE

In that case obviously not.

[Anders Melander 1777]

13 minutes ago, dummzeuch said:

In that case obviously not.

Actually it might. One of my grieves with the Refactor menu item is that if you accidentally move the mouse over the menu item (e.g. on the way to the View or Project menu item) then there's a noticeable delay (very noticeable on low end systems) as the IDE loads the refactor stuff (among it the J# run time I suspect) in order to populate the sub menu.

 

2 hours ago, Dany Marmur said:

we should maybe start another thread

Agree, but I don't think I'll have more to contribute on the subject.

[luciano_f 5]

On 11/15/2019 at 12:49 PM, dummzeuch said:

Actually: It should be easy for yet another expert (yet another GExperts menu entry 😉) to hide some of the menu entries of the IDE. Or, since there is already an expert for changing the menu shortcuts of the IDE, it could be extended to also allow hiding those entries.

In that case obviously not.

This post is old. Is there anything in gexpert to remove items or move them from the Delphi mainmenu ?

[dummzeuch 1505]

7 hours ago, luciano_f said:

This post is old. Is there anything in gexpert to remove items or move them from the Delphi mainmenu ?

There are only two options for now:

• Hide Window Menu
• Move the Component menu to Tools

Both can be found on the IDE tab of the GExperts configuration dialog.

I have no plans exending this functionality, but I am - as always - accepting patches.

[luciano_f 5]

3 hours ago, dummzeuch said:

There are only two options for now:

• Hide Window Menu
• Move the Component menu to Tools

Both can be found on the IDE tab of the GExperts configuration dialog.

I have no plans exending this functionality, but I am - as always - accepting patches.

 

I wanted to hide Delphi's "UniDac" menu, it has no use

 

 

 

[dummzeuch 1505]

2 hours ago, luciano_f said:

 

I wanted to hide Delphi's "UniDac" menu, it has no use

 

 

 

That is not a menu of the IDE but one added by some plugin or possibly a property editor.

(Or it is part of a higher SKU than I know, e.g. Delphi Enterprise or Delphi Architect)

[luciano_f 5]

1 hour ago, dummzeuch said:

That is not a menu of the IDE but one added by some plugin or possibly a property editor.

(Or it is part of a higher SKU than I know, e.g. Delphi Enterprise or Delphi Architect)

I would have to install some BPL just to remove this Menu

How could I do it ?

[Uwe Raabe 2056]

2 hours ago, dummzeuch said:

(Or it is part of a higher SKU than I know, e.g. Delphi Enterprise or Delphi Architect)

It probably is part of the UniDAC components from DevArt.

[Kas Ob. 121]

2 hours ago, luciano_f said:

How could I do it ?

Using BPL maybe ?!! 

[Kas Ob. 121]

Sorry couldn't resist.

 

Here try this

1) New package.

2) Add to required 

 

3) add this huge unit to search and hide menu

unit uRemoveUniDacMenu;

interface

uses
  Classes, SysUtils, ToolsAPI, VCL.Menus;

implementation

procedure FindMenuByCaptionAndHide(aMenu: TMenu; aCaption: string);
var
  i: Integer;
begin
  i := aMenu.Items.Count;
  while i > 0 do
  begin
    Dec(i);
    if aMenu.Items.Items[i].Caption = aCaption then
    begin
      aMenu.Items.Items[i].Visible := false;
      Break;
    end;
  end;
end;

procedure RemoveUniDacMenu;
var
  NTAServices: INTAServices;
  IDEMainMenu: TMenu;
begin
  if Supports(BorlandIDEServices, INTAServices, NTAServices) then
    IDEMainMenu := NTAServices.MainMenu;
  if Assigned(IDEMainMenu) then
  begin
    FindMenuByCaptionAndHide(IDEMainMenu, '&UniDAC');
    FindMenuByCaptionAndHide(IDEMainMenu, 'V&irtualDAC');
  end;
end;

initialization
  RemoveUniDacMenu;

end.

 

Enjoy !

 

[luciano_f 5]

1 hour ago, Kas Ob. said:

Sorry couldn't resist.

 

Here try this

1) New package.

2) Add to required 

 

3) add this huge unit to search and hide menu

unit uRemoveUniDacMenu;

interface

uses
  Classes, SysUtils, ToolsAPI, VCL.Menus;

implementation

procedure FindMenuByCaptionAndHide(aMenu: TMenu; aCaption: string);
var
  i: Integer;
begin
  i := aMenu.Items.Count;
  while i > 0 do
  begin
    Dec(i);
    if aMenu.Items.Items[i].Caption = aCaption then
    begin
      aMenu.Items.Items[i].Visible := false;
      Break;
    end;
  end;
end;

procedure RemoveUniDacMenu;
var
  NTAServices: INTAServices;
  IDEMainMenu: TMenu;
begin
  if Supports(BorlandIDEServices, INTAServices, NTAServices) then
    IDEMainMenu := NTAServices.MainMenu;
  if Assigned(IDEMainMenu) then
  begin
    FindMenuByCaptionAndHide(IDEMainMenu, '&UniDAC');
    FindMenuByCaptionAndHide(IDEMainMenu, 'V&irtualDAC');
  end;
end;

initialization
  RemoveUniDacMenu;

end.

 

Enjoy !

 

Wonder,  It worked

Much obliged.

 

[luciano_f 5]

On 11/14/2019 at 2:24 PM, dummzeuch said:

I think you are talking about different "main menus" here. 😉

 

@Stefan Glienke Yes, it's getting larger (which annoys me too sometimes), but do you really use all the experts? You could simply disable those you don't use which removes them from the menu.

 

Organizing it into submenus would be a major change since currently the menu is built by enumerating all the experts and adding an entry for all that are active.

 

Feel free to submit a feature request though. One day I might get bored enough to do it or maybe somebody else does it and submits a patch.

 

I don't know if it would be too much to ask, Gexpert could have a feature to remove items from the menu or even move items to other places

[Kas Ob. 121]

@luciano_f I tried my own code today and the IDE generated a warning, it didn't show me yesterday so the code without warning is

unit uRemoveUniDacMenu;

interface

uses
  Classes, SysUtils, ToolsAPI, Windows, VCL.Menus;

implementation

procedure FindMenuByCaptionAndHide(aMenu: TMenu; aCaption: string);
var
  i: Integer;
begin
  i := aMenu.Items.Count;
  while i > 0 do
  begin
    Dec(i);
    if aMenu.Items.Items[i].Caption = aCaption then
    begin
      aMenu.Items.Items[i].Visible := false;
      Break;
    end;
  end;
end;

procedure RemoveUniDacMenu;
var
  NTAServices: INTAServices;
  IDEMainMenu: TMenu;
begin
  if Supports(BorlandIDEServices, INTAServices, NTAServices) then
  begin
    IDEMainMenu := NTAServices.MainMenu;
    FindMenuByCaptionAndHide(IDEMainMenu, '&UniDAC');
    FindMenuByCaptionAndHide(IDEMainMenu, 'V&irtualDAC');
  end;
end;

initialization
  RemoveUniDacMenu;

end.

Another problem is after first IDE restart the menu was deleted but after two restart the menu was there and the code failed to delete the menu, the reason was something changed the order of package loading also this IDE is a cloned one meaning is really missed up, so can't be sure of the reason.

Any way to make sure it will work always you need to add to required any of the UniDac packages like "dcldac220" and this ensure this package will follow the needed package, in this case all the UniDac RTL packages are loaded together so it will work with any of them.