IssueTracker

Request Summary:

When you use addMenu to update the menus you specify a bare function name. You cannot add any parameters to the function nor can you use an anonymous function.

It'd be much more useful if I could pass in arbitrary information to the function in arguments.

It would be swell if I could do something like:

var sheetsMenuEntries = [ {name: "Overview", functionName: "gotoSheet('Overview')"},
                      {name: "Details", functionName: "gotoSheet('Details')"}
                     ];
  ss.addMenu("Sheets", sheetMenuEntries);                


function gotoSheet(n) {
  //do stuff to go to the sheet named n
}

I propose extending the anonymous object we're using to configure the menu to allow more attributes, but keeping the familiar name/functionName structure so as not to break existing scripts.

name: Menu text to be displayed (Required) (currently exists)
functionName: string variable containing the name of the function to execute (optional) (currently exists, but is required)
functionCall: string variable containing a call to the function to execute, as if you were going to eval() it. (optional)
functionBody: a function object to be executed when the menu is chosen. (optional)

That way I could do some really sweet stuff like

var procMenuEntries = [ {name: "Simple thing", functionName: "mySimpleFunc"},
                      {name: "Parameterized thing", functionCall: "myParameterizedFunc('foo', 'bar')"},
                      {name: "Woohoo Anonymous Functions", functionBody: function(){Browser.msgBox("Hello World");}}},
                     ];

  ss.addMenu("Process", procMenuEntries);