Customizing toolbar

[PeterC-DLS]

Is your feature request related to a problem?

We have customized some of the toolbar controls to group them together into modal dialogue boxes and move others to the overflow menu.

Requested solution or feature

To do so, we require some minor changes to existing toolbar components

1. Allow children to be initially added to the overflow menu
2. Export some components
3. Allow children to included in a toggle button

[axelboc]

Thanks @PeterC-DLS, we'll look into it. Some initial thoughts:

1. I wonder whether the responsive toolbar / overflow menu is the right approach for you, as it seems you just want a way to group less-used controls in a menu. Would a static Menu component of sorts suit your needs better?
2. Shouldn't be a problem.
3. Can you please expand a little on what kind of children you'd like to include in the toggle button? Maybe we can cover your use case better by rethinking the props of the component?

[PeterC-DLS]

Thanks, Axel. This is what we have at the moment:

1. I think a static menu is fine but then in more crowded situations, a 2nd menu may be confusing.
2. Great.
3. Actually, this is not needed any longer as I moved away from re-using toggle button to the vanilla buttion for the ColorMapOption button in the screenshot.

[axelboc]

1. Makes sense. I could see a pattern where static menus would merge into the overflow menu, as demonstrated here: https://www.telerik.com/kendo-angular-ui/components/toolbar/responsive-toolbar/ — maybe too complicated, I'll have to think about it more. Re-using the overflow menu is definitely easier for the time being.

[axelboc]

Closing this as resolved now that DomainControls and DomainSlider are exported in main (as a reminder, the old DomainSlider export is now called DomainWidget). I won't go further on the idea of having static menus that merge into the overflow menu, at least for the time being. We can open a new issue when the time comes if the idea becomes more relevant.

I probably won't publish the next major release until September, but in the meantime I've published beta version 9.0.0-beta.0 and updated the documentation site. Feel free to try it out and to let me know if the new exports meet your needs. 😉

[PeterC-DLS]

Thanks for the refactor. We are maintaining a fork so will have a look at updating that to reduce our divergence.