Hi everyone,
I have a problem with my MenuBar in the fact that I can get setMenuItemSelected
to work. When items on the menu get a tick, I need them them to stay that way
to show a visited state within the menu. I can't seem to address the correct
item in the menu when using setMenuItemSelected and so the items just untick
when selected again. Many thanks in advance to anyone who can help me fix this
problem as I've spent far too long trying to sort it out.
Here's my code, the menu uses and xml file to populate and everything else
works fine:
// If we import the controls, we can then use createClassObject, as seen// a
few lines down, to create a MenuBar without actually having to place// a
MenuBar component on the stage.import mx.controls.MenuBar;//
====================================================================// Create a
MenuBar object on the screenthis.createClassObject(mx.controls.MenuBar,
"xmlMenuBar", 25);// XMLvar myDP_xml:XML;// Listener objectvar
fileListener:Object;//
====================================================================// Set up
tab index etc.xmlMenuBar.tabEnabled = true;xmlMenuBar.tabIndex = 1;//
====================================================================//define
styles for the ComboBox componentxmlMenuBar.setStyle("backgroundColor",
0xD8CCB6);//xmlMenuBar.setStyle("alternatingRowColors", [0xE9E1D6,
0xCEBEA6]);xmlMenuBar.setStyle("color",
0x666666);xmlMenuBar.setStyle("embedFonts",
false);xmlMenuBar.setStyle("textAlign",
"left");//xmlMenuBar.setStyle("fontStyle", "italic");//
====================================================================myDP_xml =
new XML();myDP_xml.ignoreWhite = true;myDP_xml.onLoad =
function(success:Boolean) { if (success) { // Set the size and position of the
menu using XML values xmlMenuBar._height =
myDP_xml.firstChild.nextSibling.attributes.menuHeight; xmlMenuBar._width =
myDP_xml.firstChild.nextSibling.attributes.menuWidth; xmlMenuBar._x =
myDP_xml.firstChild.nextSibling.attributes.xPos; xmlMenuBar._y =
myDP_xml.firstChild.nextSibling.attributes.yPos; // // set some of the style
values from XML data xmlMenuBar.setStyle("fontFamily",
myDP_xml.firstChild.nextSibling.attributes.menuFont);
xmlMenuBar.setStyle("fontSize",
myDP_xml.firstChild.nextSibling.attributes.menuFontSize);
xmlMenuBar.setStyle("themeColor",
myDP_xml.firstChild.nextSibling.attributes.menuColour); // // populate the
menu with the XML values xmlMenuBar.dataProvider = myDP_xml.firstChild;
//trace(myDP_xml.firstChild); } else { trace("error loading XML file");
}};myDP_xml.load("menuBarXML.xml");//// The listenered for the file menu (and
submenus)fileListener = new Object();fileListener.change =
function(eventObj:Object):Void { trace("--------------------------");
//trace(eventObj.menuItem.attributes.label); // var menuNum = eventObj.menu;
//trace(menuNum); // var menuItemNum =
eventObj.menu.indexOf(eventObj.menuItem); //trace(menuItemNum); //
eventObj.menu.TextArea.setStyle("fontStyle", "italic"); // var
myItem:mx.controls.Menu = xmlMenuBar.getMenuItemAt(eventObj.menuItem);
//trace(myItem); //trace(eventObj.menu); //trace("getMenuAt ->
"+xmlMenuBar.getMenuAt(menuItemNum)); var instName =
eventObj.menuItem.attributes.instanceName; trace(instName); //
xmlMenuBar.menuNum.setMenuItemSelected(instName, true); //
switch(eventObj.menuItem.attributes.linkType) { case "web":
//getURL(eventObj.menuItem.attributes.linkTo, "_blank"); break; case
"email": //getURL("mailto:"+eventObj.menuItem.attributes.linkTo, "_blank");
break; case "keyframe": //gotoAndPlay(eventObj.menuItem.attributes.linkTo);
break; }};// register the listeners with the separate
menusxmlMenuBar.addEventListener("change",
fileListener);stop();////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
And here's the xml test file used:
<?xml version="1.0" ?> <menu> <menuitem label="Organic
Molecules"> <menuitem label="Google" instanceName="googleInstance"
type="check" linkTo="http://www.google.com"; linkType="web" /> <menuitem
type="separator" /> <menuitem label="BBC News"
instanceName="bbcInstance" type="check" linkTo="[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject"
linkType="email" /> <menuitem label="Microsoft"
instanceName="microsoftInstance" type="check" linkTo="testKeyframeLable"
linkType="keyframe" /> </menuitem> <menuitem label="Chemical
Equilibrium"> <menuitem label="Undo" type="check" /> <menuitem
type="separator" /> <menuitem label="Cut" type="check" />
<menuitem label="Copy" type="check" /> <menuitem label="Paste"
type="check" /> <menuitem label="Clear" type="check" />
<menuitem type="separator" /> <menuitem label="Select All"
type="check" /> </menuitem> </menu> <menuSettings
menuHeight="20" menuWidth="220" xPos="250" yPos="0" menuFont="Verdana"
menuFontSize="10" menuColour="0x66CCAD" />
Kind Regards,
Gareth Hudson.
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