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vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1494 Location: Ukraine

Dear musher0,

Thanks for putting some of the stuff through its paces. It does seem to be working as envisaged, which is always encouraging. Smile

And a touch of colour and a nice font do much to make things a bit more lively and inviting.

With kind regards,
vovchik

musher0 · Posted: Mon 01 Aug 2016, 19:22 Post subject:

I am just starting to explore the possibilities of your wonderful new tool! Very Happy

musher0 · Posted: Tue 02 Aug 2016, 16:01 Post subject:

Hello all!

This new menu is again based on the default Puppy apps, but it "casts a wider
net", so to speak.

It can add some file utilities, and your list of browsers if you have more than one
browser. At this point, you'll need to get your hands dirty, (I mean rework the
script a bit) to get those listings, but the capacity is there.

Also, a major breakthrough in this extended default menu, I think, is its
capacity to be "dressed-up" by the user from within (from the menu itself),
including for the title, the separators and the fonts.

What I find quite interesting in the aemenu-pango is that the menu can be scripted
to show the user, in the menu itself, which colors and which fonts are available to
him/her. (Please see screen capture.)

In this context, if you know of a good font or of efficient colors for this aemenu-
pango, please share them? It will be most appreciated.

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This is again an example, still in beta. If you use it for production, please be
aware that it is at your own risk.

Kindly report all bugs. One such bug is about the LiberationSerif-Regular font: it's
applied quite ok from the gtk-chtheme utility, but it's the only font not showing
properly in the dress-up list. Why? Sad

"Mystery, mystery."

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Again thanks to vovchik for having made available a wonderful tool! Smile

And again, the same heads-up to users as before: to run this aemenu-pango
application properly, you will need to download the tools (bcm, etc.) that vovchik
has kindly provided on the previous page.

BTW, try NOT to enjoy it! (hehe) This aemenu-pango can really get addictive! Very Happy

BFN.

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NOTE --
The "run", "partitions" and "Exit" entries in the main panel call scripts which are NOT
included in the attached zip archive. If you click on those entries, nothing will happen.

As I said, this is a "beta" example. But please feel free to adapt it to your needs.

musher0 · Posted: Thu 04 Aug 2016, 06:53 Post subject:

This version adds the choice of font sizes, plus the directories are now in their own
sub-menu.

musher0 · Posted: Sun 11 Sep 2016, 08:03 Post subject:

Hi vovchik.

I hope you are well. We've not heard from you in a little while.

When you have a minute, would you please double-check if the aemenu-
pango can really recognize the colors in hexadecimal? It says so in the doc
that you provided, but I can't get the hex colors to show. (Named colors
such as blue, white, cornsilk, chartreuse4, etc., show up ok.)

This is my context at the moment.

TIA. TWYL, hopefully.

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1494 Location: Ukraine

Dear musher0,

Thanks for asking. Not everything is glorious and peachy at the moment, but I will manage, I hope. Smile

As for aemenu not recognizing #ff0000, I just tested and, for example, the following works fine:

musher0 · Posted: Fri 16 Sep 2016, 19:24 Post subject:

Hello all.

Here is an update of my most recent DefaultMenuPlus script based on
vovchick's work.

All comments and captures related to it in the posts above still apply.

Enjoy!

musher0 · Posted: Fri 16 Sep 2016, 19:40 Post subject:

@all:

I also applied vovchick's aemenu-pango in this MRUF/MRUD menu,
which is potentially of interest to all Puppyists.

Now we have another illustration of how interesting and efficient
marked-up (ae)menus can be. Again: thanks to vovchick! Smile

TWYL.

musher0 · Posted: Tue 20 Sep 2016, 00:59 Post subject:

Hello vovchik.

Does a 64-bit version of your aemenu-pango exist?

There would perhaps be a need for it. Lazy Puppy is having difficulty
compiling it on Tahr64. Please see here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=924488&sort=lastpost#924488

There is an ".h" file missing.

TIA.

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1494 Location: Ukraine

Hi musher0,

I don't think we have a 64-bit binary. I have only 32-bit installed, and my version compiles fine. I wonder why that system header file is missing. And I wonder whether others reading this who have a development system and are running 64-bit could try and see see whether it compiles. Head-scratching time. Sad

With kind regards,
vovchik

LazY Puppy · Joined: 21 Nov 2014 Posts: 2007 Location: Germany

Checked the devx's of

- lucid 528-4
- precise 571
- tahr 602, 605
- tahr64 605
- vivid beta2
- unicorn 60
- xenial 704
- xenial64 707
- slacko64 630

All of them are missing the glibconfig.h !!!

I wonder how you could compile...

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1494 Location: Ukraine

Hi Lazy Puppy,

Here is the file in question - you will see by examing it that it is generated. I don't know what genereated it and when. All I can say is "weird".

With kind regards,
vovchik

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8684 Location: qld

64 compiles ok here.

Just add -lX11 to the GTKLIB line in Makefile.. no need of the compile script.

Alternatively, hack the compile script to suit your system.

musher0 · Posted: Wed 21 Sep 2016, 08:21 Post subject:

LazY Puppy · Joined: 21 Nov 2014 Posts: 2007 Location: Germany

I don't understand this.

This is the GTKLIB line: