[flexcoders] Flex 2 Beta 2 - MenuBar events - no menuItem property

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 13:03:14 -0700

Hello,

I'm using Flex 2 Beta 2, and I'm trying to catch MenuBar events.

I've already been through the workarounds in order to display E4X XML
dataproviders correctly, ie, using showRoot="false",
labelField="@label", etc.

However, whenever a MenuBar event fires, the event object does not
contain a menuItem property.  I can trace the event object and see
that it contains no menuItem.  Here is my code, in case I've missed
something silly.

 

mx:Script><![CDATA[
  import mx.managers.PopUpManager;
  import mx.controls.Menu;
  import mx.controls.MenuBar;
        import mx.events.MenuEvent;
       
       
        private function changeEvt(event:MenuEvent):void {
            flash.util.trace("crazy"+event);
            if(event.menuItem.attributes.label == "Settings...") {
             showSettings();
            }
        }

  
        private function showSettings():void {
            // Create the TitleWindow container.
            var settingsWindow:IFlexDisplayObject = PopUpManager.createPopUp(this, SettingsMenu, false);
        }
   
 ]]>
 </mx:Script>

 

<mx:MenuBar x="0" y="0" width="1024" height="20" id="FileBar" change="changeEvt(event)" labelField="@label" showRoot="false">
  <mx:dataProvider>
          <mx:XML format="e4x">
    <menuitem label="File">
                 <menuitem label="Exit" />
             </menuitem>
             <menuitem label="Edit">
              <menuitem label="Mode">
               <menuitem label="** Mode"/>
               <menuitem label="** Mode"/>
              </menuitem>
              <menuitem label="Users..." />
              <menuitem label="IP Address List..." />
              <menuitem label="Settings..." />
             </menuitem>
             <menuitem label="View">
              <menuitem label="Logs..." />
              <menuitem label="Reports..." />
             </menuitem>
             <menuitem label="Window">
              <menuitem label="***" />
              <menuitem label="***" />
             </menuitem>
             <menuitem label="Help">
              <menuitem label="*** Help..." />
              <menuitem label="Support" />
              <menuitem label="Check for Updates..." />
              <menuitem label="About ****" />
             </menuitem>
             
          </mx:XML>
  </mx:dataProvider>
 
 </mx:MenuBar>

The trace shows this:

crazy[Event type="change" bubbles=false cancelable=true eventPhase=2]

 

Is there a workaround?  Is anyone getting MenuBar events to work in Beta 2?



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