Is it possible to have a custom view as a `Menu` i...

# doodle

[Alessandro Marcolini]

Is it possible to have a custom view as a Menu item?

[Nick]

not directly. but you can change the way items render using a custom MenuBehavior. take a look at how this is done in BasicMenuBehavior.

[Nick]

i’m curious about your use case by the way. to see if it’s something that might make sense to support.

[Alessandro Marcolini]

I want to have some controls in the menu, like a dropdown or a text field. It's not a traditional menu, but I don't want to have a whole separate popup just to get one small bit of user input.

[Alessandro Marcolini]

Is there any way to get a PathMetrics instance?

[Nick]

you can inject it after adding a Module with a binding line this

Module(name = "App Module") {
    //…
    bind<PathMetrics> () with singleton {
        PathMetricsImpl(instance())
    }
    //…
}

[Nick]

i thought about this use case for Menu but opted to ship and see how common it was. sounds like it might be worth considering.

[Alessandro Marcolini]

It looks like BasicMenuBehavior requires a PathMetrics instance, but no modules provide a binding for it. Is that expected behavior?

[Alessandro Marcolini]

I also discovered this println in BasicMenuBehavior here, which looks like maybe old logging information? I could make an issue for it but it seems like a really easy fix.

[Nick]

the module dependency is a known limitation. it stems from the fact that there are multiple PathMetrics impls depending on which platform you’re using. so the Themes library, which is common cannot include the binding and must rely on the app to chose. this is something that might need better documentation though.

i think i’ve already discovered and fixed the old println for the next release. but thanks for raising it.