Kind request: getMenu() tutorial

[macdeport]

Please provide a tutorial for calling GetMenu() and displaying the resultant sub-menu tree or something like that ;-)
Thanks.

[Kalmat]

Hi again!

My apologies since I thought it would be clear enough because format and content of getMenu() output is documented on the README file. Besides, you can print it in a legible format just using json.dumps, like this:

npw = getActiveWindow()
menu = npw.menu.getMenu()
print(json.dumps(menu, indent=4, ensure_ascii=False))

This would produce this output for "Terminal" app (I'm cutting it off since it's extremely large. I'm attaching the complete file anyway):

{
    "Apple": {
        ...
}
{
    "Terminal": {
        "hSubMenu": 3,
        "wID": 64,
        "entries": {
            "Acerca de Terminal": {
                "parent": 3,
                "wID": 65,
                "rect": [0, 0, 225, 19],
                "hSubMenu": 0
            },
            "separator": {},
            "Preferencias…": {
                "parent": 3,
                "wID": 66,
                "rect": [0, 31, 225, 50],
                "hSubMenu": 0
            },
            "Entrada de teclado segura": {
                "parent": 3,
                "wID": 67,
                "rect": [0, 50, 225, 69],
                "hSubMenu": 0
            },
            "Servicios": {
                "parent": 3,
                "wID": 68,
                "rect": [0, 81, 225, 100],
                "hSubMenu": 4,
                "entries": {
                    "Ningún servicio aplicable": {
                        "parent": 3,
                        "wID": 69,
                        "rect": [0, 0, 251, 19]
                    },
                    "Preferencias de los servicios…": {
                        "parent": 3,
                        "wID": 70,
                        "rect": [0, 19, 251, 38]
                    }
                }
            },
            "Ocultar Terminal": {
                "parent": 3,
                "wID": 71,
                "rect": [0, 112, 225, 131],
                "hSubMenu": 0
            },
            "Ocultar otros": {
                "parent": 3,
                "wID": 72,
                "rect": [
                    0,
                    131,
                    225,
                    150
                ],
                "hSubMenu": 0
            },
            "Mostrar todo": {
                "parent": 3,
                "wID": 73,
                "rect": [0, 150, 225, 169],
                "hSubMenu": 0
            },
            "Salir de Terminal": {
                "parent": 3,
                "wID": 74,
                "rect": [0, 181, 225, 200],
                "hSubMenu": 0
            },
            "Salir y mantener ventanas": {
                "parent": 3,
                "wID": 75,
                "hSubMenu": 0
            }
        }
    },
    "Shell": {
        "hSubMenu": 5,
        "wID": 76,
        "entries": {
            "Nueva ventana": {
                "parent": 5,
                "wID": 77,
                "rect": [0, 0, 319, 19],
                "hSubMenu": 6,
                "entries": {
                    "Nueva ventana con perfil - Basic": {
                        "parent": 5,
                        "wID": 78,
                        "rect": [0, 0, 333, 19]
                    },
                    "Nueva ventana con el mismo comando": {
                        "parent": 5,
                        "wID": 79,
                        "rect": [0, 19, 333, 38]
                    },
    ...
}

As you can see, every menu item is represented by a dictionary key, which has all information key/values inside.
The result is a nested struct since every sub-menu will have all its sub-items inside, within "entries" key (or none in case it is not a sub-menu, but a "final" menu item).

test.zip