[opencms-dev] Where does CmsAdminMenu get the menu items?

[Michael Moossen]

Hi, Alexander!

> So this pretty much mean that if i want to have my own view, i'm better off 
> building the menues and all the rest of the UI on my own and not use the 
> CmsAdminMenu, etc.  Right?     Being so new to this i don't know what i'd be
> 
> missing if i create my own menu, and things, Other than maby the automated 
> look and feel... Can you share some knowledge here?
a possibility is to extend the CmsAdminMenu class overwriting the installMenu()
method.

-- 
Regards
Michael Moossen
Alkacon Software - The OpenCms Experts

http://www.alkacon.com



Quoting Alexander Wallace <aw at avatartechnology.com>:

> On Thursday 04 August 2005 02:56 am, Michael Moossen wrote:
> > Hi, Alexander!
> Thank you very much for the anser.
> 
> > 
> > but the tool manager does not allows to have more than one root for 
> tools... :(
> > you can only have a new group in the same view.
> > 
> So this pretty much mean that if i want to have my own view, i'm better off 
> building the menues and all the rest of the UI on my own and not use the 
> CmsAdminMenu, etc.  Right?     Being so new to this i don't know what i'd be
> 
> missing if i create my own menu, and things, Other than maby the automated 
> look and feel... Can you share some knowledge here?
> 
> Thank you very much.
> 
> > -- 
> > Regards
> > Michael Moossen
> > Alkacon Software Gmbh - The OpenCms Experts
> > 
> > http://www.alkacon.com
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Quoting Alexander Wallace <aw at avatartechnology.com>:
> > 
> > > Hi all... I have created a new "View" in the workplace, and i would like
> 
> to 
> > > give it the same look and feel as the Administration View (the new
> one)...
> > > 
> > > I'm trying to figure out if i should reuse the CmsAdminMenu class or
> write 
> my
> > > 
> > > own menu class. For that reason I was hoping to find somewhere in the 
> code, 
> > > what tells CmsAdminMenu which menu items to add... I'm looking at the 
> > > installMenu() method, that's where the rendering takes place, but i have
> 
> not
> > > 
> > > been able to figure out where is the ToolManager or the ToolHandlers 
> through
> > > 
> > > which iterates specified.
> > > 
> > > Can someone give me a clue here if i should follow this path, where to 
> look,
> > > 
> > > what's better to do what i want? Any help is greatly appreciated...
> > > 
> > > Thanks!
> > > 
> > > 
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