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[doyle]

Radial lab 1 looks great.

[LastCallAgain]

Whats the possibility of having a "Sub-Radial Menus" feature?

So you open up your radial, and one of the icons says something like "Program Files"

Then when you hover over it, another Radial is created with the items that fall under that category.

Awesome idea Doyle! I wondered about that myself.

Learning one: Good luck with your new project, I hope you can get back to RM soon. It's an incredible tool!

Has anyone tried using RM to activate hotkeys rather than launch applications?
I'm tinkering with it myself but not having much luck, other than using RM to activate a standalone script that sends the hotkey... seems like a lot of extra work tho.

[Elesar]

the current system sends the run command containing a variable pointing to what you have configured in the INI file, so if you can do it with the run command, you should be able to do it with RM.

I think your method of launching standalone scripts is probably the only way to do so at the moment, but maybe someone can mod it in, or Learning One may take a look at it when he returns to this project.

[doyle]

Its definately possible. Its just working out the best way to do it.

Maybe a Labels.ahk #Include(d) with the script would work.

You'd have to define what type of code the button would execute though I guess.

[Learning one]

@LastCallAgain
You don't like to launch standalone scripts by selecting RMItem?
You want that selecting RMItem has effect like pressing a hotkey, (when you select it, RM executes specified subroutine)?

[Elesar]

I took a few minutes and figured the latest request out.

Around line 500, in the item selection portion of the script:

if WinTitle contains RMItem     ; RMShowHotkey released on item
{
   MouseMove, %mx1%, %my1%      ; back to original position
   Gosub, MutualActions
   
   Loop, %TotalButtons%         ; determine what to run
   {
      if (WinTitle = "RMItem" . A_Index)
      {
         CurAction := I%A_Index%Action
         if (CurAction = "Error" or CurAction = "")
         Break
         Else
         {
            [color=red]If IsLabel(CurAction)
            	GoSub, %CurAction%
            Else
            {[/color]
	            Transform, CurAction, Deref, %CurAction%        ; suggestion by Maxmax14 (Thanks!)
            	Run,  %CurAction%
        	 [color=red]}[/color]
            Break
         }
      }
   }
   Gosub, RadialMenuClose
   ;WinActivate, %OrigWinTitle%
}

At the very end of the code:

#Include *i %A_ScriptDir%\UserCommands.txt

UserCommands.txt should be a file in the same directory as RM, and should be formatted as a standard AHK script:

TestLabel:
	MsgBox, This is a test label from an included file.
	Return

Just add an item to the menu with the action TestLabel and it will launch on selection.

On another note:
I have several new projects that I am having to see to completion before I can continue my work on the settings front-end (a couple websites to build, and some stuff for work). I do hope to continue work on this soon, but if I find that I cannot return to it before long, I will release what I do have, so that hopefully someone else may complete it and further improve upon Radial Menu!

[Learning one]

That's very similar to my solution in RM v3.15
I'm already using it for about 1 week, and it works perfectly.

There are also some other improvements/changes in RM v3.15.

Although I'm still very busy, I'll try to find some time to prepare RM v3.15 for public release.

[Learning one]

Radial menu v3.15 released

Changes log:
- new layout - 6 items in 1. ring, all other rings have slightly reduced radius. After using RM for a longer time, I concluded that this is the best good look/functionality compromise. Number of items in menu is limited to 66 max (4 full rings).

- 2 new .ini keys in [General] section; MenuBackgroundWidth and MenuBackgroundHeight. Determines menu's background Width/Height. If blank or above MenuBackground's (image) resolution, MenuBackground's image resolution applies as Width/Height.

- added new: MenuBackground, ButtonBackground (minor change; just smaller shadow), SoundOnHover(shorter)

- added "Edit MySubroutines" in tray menu

- possibility to execute custom Item's subroutine instead of launching stand-alone script (Hotkey-like behavior). To do this:
1. specify Mysub in item's action
2. create your custom subroutine in \Utilities\MySubroutines.ahk. If you are creating subroutine for Item1, subroutine's label must be Item1. For Item2, Item2 and so on...

- some new small scripts in utilities dir, and other minor changes...


Download: Radial menu v3.15 (16.12.2009.)



"I would like to have submenus, can you do that?"
Yes I can. That's very old idea; see description in my first RM script; Radial menu v1
I know how to do it, I want to do it, but I'm currently still very busy. So, you have to wait...
For now, you can take a look at my Submenus concept

[Learning one]

Sorry, wrong default RMBackground in package.
fixed now.

[Learning one]

@alaskatu:

[Learning one]

Thanks.

On my machine, it is unusable over a video window (vmr9), cause of strong flickering...

You are right! Hm... I think I can't fix this. I think this is GDI+ problem...

Submenus and auto-extracting icons are on to do list.
I have to study HotKeyIt's ToolTip()

There are also some functions (like the ones in ToolTip() ) that can find associated icon automatically, would be great as well

[Learning one]

RM progress report

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On the left side, you can see improved Radial menu "mg".
- (reminder: It uses different system than Radial menu v3; only 1 Gui - LayeredWindow, items are identified by mouse gestures...)
- new skin
- now supports multiple item rings
- I wrote a small function library and item identification is now very simple; just call GetSelectedItem()
- main problem with RM "mg" is that writing a code that will automatically create such nice looking interface, and allow user to modify it as he wish is very hard. For now I can manually create custom RM "mg" graphical user interfaces on demand.
- code for this one is still not released on AHK forum, Edit: but it's "core" is - see post below.

On the right side, you can see Radial menu v3.16
- new skin
- testing submenus!!! - lower right picture
- I'll release the code when 100% stable version is finished

I hope you like previews. :wink:

.

[Learning one]

Radial menu "mg" method
This script is the core of Radial menu mg. It's sort of "How does Radial menu mg work" tutorial.
If you are working on radial menus, study it - it's short and isn't hard to understand. "Mg" means mouse gesture.
This method has greater potential than method used in Radial menu v3.

Download Radial menu mg method. Read description in script. Default hotkey is MButton.