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

Sat, 22 Apr 2006 19:29:55 -0700

Try accessing your label attribute as follows:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] and then you should be able to retrieve the
value.

Let me know if tht works for you.
-Sof


--- In [email protected], "Jordan Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> 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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