Please add API to show dynamic-button commands and .dcf files as pop-up menus

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When controling DOpus with voice commands, it would be very useful to be able to show dynamic-button commands - or, while we're at it, .dcf files for more complex arrangements - as pop-up menus. Outside the context of voice control, it may also be useful to trigger such pop-up menus with hotkeys.

I guess the infrastructure you already have in your codebase would make it quite easy to add a function to the JScript API that shows a pop-up menu, based on either a dynamic-button command like Go DRIVEBUTTONS or Undo LIST, or on the path to a .dcf file.

For the voice command context, it would be useful to be able to let the pop-up menu appear centered on the lister (or standalone viewer) (like the Go TABSWITCHER pop-up), but in other use cases, one may possibly prefer the current mouse cursor position. So, this should probably be configurable via a function argument.

I think I saw some comments about performance in the context of dynamic buttons. Should that be relevant, there could be a way to create an object based on a dynamic-button command or .dcf file path, and then use that object any number of times to show it as a pop-up menu.

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The scripting Dialog object lets scripts make and show pop-up menus.

As long as there's a way for the script to build the menu (e.g. iterating through the lister's tabs in the case of your example), you should already have all you need to do this.

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That API allows you to replicate dynamic-button lists including their icons? That didn't appear to me to be the case! How would you have access to the list output of every dynamic-button command?

No, that wasn't my example! What I said about Go TABSWITCHER was exclusively related to the same kind of pop-up placement relative to the lister, i.e., centered (which, BTW, the Dialog API doesn't currently allow). For a pop-up with a list of tabs, I can obviously use the Go TABSWITCHER command itself (and I do).