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Topic: How to customize the shortcut menus

How can I modify the items in the shortcuts menus?

This is the menu I am talking about:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lt217my4siu8w … u.PNG?dl=0

Is that somehow part of the theme?

2 Reply by apmuthu (edited by apmuthu 08/04/2016 12:18:52 pm)

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Re: How to customize the shortcut menus

Whilst the look and feel are definitely part of the theme, the shortcuts are part of the string it shows for example in applications/customers.php which is the sales / order application tab:

class customers_app extends application 
{
    function customers_app() 
    {
        $this->application("orders", _($this->help_context = "&Sales"));
    
        $this->add_module(_("Transactions"));
        $this->add_lapp_function(0, _("Sales &Quotation Entry"),
            "sales/sales_order_entry.php?NewQuotation=Yes", 'SA_SALESQUOTE', MENU_TRANSACTION);
        $this->add_lapp_function(0, _("Sales &Order Entry"),
..
..

The character that succeeds "&" character in the strings above are the shortcuts. If the same character is there more than once in a page, it will cycle thru them on each choice.

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Re: How to customize the shortcut menus

Thanks. What I wanted to modify is part of the theme actually.

If I want to modify the regular menu instead, I guess the best would be to write an Extensions, right?
Can you recommand a good guide for writing an extension? I only find bits and pieces of information here and there.

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Re: How to customize the shortcut menus

Hi,

I managed to make a simple extension. However I have a question.

How can I customize this icon? https://www.dropbox.com/s/caa6xjk7v6h7bzs/FA%20modules%20icons.png?dl=0

It's probably related to the $icon parameter of the module constructor but I can't find any example.

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Re: How to customize the shortcut menus

To modify the menus in your extension you need to implement the 'install_options' hook.  Here's an example from one of my extensions.

To see all the hooks that are available have a look in includes/hooks.inc in the core.

To modify the icon that you see relating to any menu item you need to do 2 things:

1. Specify the category when creating the menu item.  Each menu item is an instance of the app_function class.  Its constructor takes a $category.

2. The renderer class in the theme has a function that maps category to icon.  function get_icon($category).  You can then use this to map to the icon you want.

The icon image should be within the theme folder.

Cambell https://github.com/cambell-prince

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  • From: Ireland, Cork
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Re: How to customize the shortcut menus

Thank you for your answer.

My theme (elegant) has hardcoded the icons based on the offset of the module.

 $imgs2 = array("folder.gif", "report.png", "page_edit.png", "money.png", "folder.gif");

I guess I'll have to modify the theme then.

Thanks again for your help.

7 Reply by apmuthu (edited by apmuthu 08/28/2016 06:34:33 pm)

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Re: How to customize the shortcut menus

The category is the last parameter (4th parameter) in the app_function class's get_icon() method. For the default standard theme, place the icon file $category.png in the theme's images folder.

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Re: How to customize the shortcut menus

Thanks. I got it working with the instructions from Cambell.