Jim Hunter schrieb: > Take a step back from your code and look at it closely. If you have > never programmed before you might not get that you are building an > application layer by layer. If you create a FlowLayout to hold a menu, > then you have to add the menu to the FlowLayout not the main document.
Menus should always be added to the client document. It's the easiest way to position them later. Cheers, Sebastian > Generally, not many things get added to the main document, most things > get added to a layer (or more) that you place on the main document, in > your case its "flow". And when you create menu buttons, they need to be > added to a toolbar then add the toolbar to the HorizontalBoxLayout (use > Horizontal for menus that go from left to right). > Think of the whole process like building a card house and the table is > your clientDocument. > > So take things one step at a time to create your house of cards. I > suggest that while you are still learning the toolkit, create things one > layer at a time. And a trick I do is that I give things distinct colors > at first so that I know they are created and that they are in the > correct place. So create the FlowLayout first and place it on the > clientDocument, make sure that it is where you want it. Then create a > HorizontalBoxLayout to hold the menu and place it on the FlowLayout. It > may be hard to know if this is where you want it unless you temporarily > give it a height and width and color. Then create your ToolBar and place > it on the HorizontalBoxLayout. Again, you may need to give it a width > and height to make sure it is where you want it. Create on button and > place it on the ToolBar. Do the same for your other buttons. If you > follow this type of construction you can create almost anything, just do > it one step at a time. Once things are on the page you can then remove > the fixed dimensions to see if everything still shows, and I suggest > removing the dimensions one level at a time also so you know where you > are if something stops working. > > Hope this helps. > > Jim > > On 9/5/06, *Mike Crowe* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I really haven't studied this enough, so any pointers would be > appreciated. > > Looking at the AtAGlance.js file, I'm trying to understand how and > where to add my objects. For instance, in the "createToolbarDemo > routine, here's what happens: > > Menubar Example: > Individual MenuButtons added to Menu object > Menu objects added to Document object > Toolbar created and (linked?) to Menu objects > ToolBarMenuButton created and added to Toolbar object > Toolbar added to VerticalBoxLayout object > > That is for the main menu. Now, a separate toolbar is created: > > Toolbar Example: > Toolbar created and added to VerticalBoxLayout object > (lots of other controls added to Toolbar) > HorizontalBoxLayout created and added to VerticalBoxLayout > New VerticalBoxLayout2 created and added to HorizontalBoxLayout > (lots of controls and more layouts added to these) > > Can somebody please give me the 30,000' view of what's going on? > In Menubar, why do the Menu items need to be added to the Document? > Where "must" we add the components to insure they are included? > > I took Sebastian's advice, and removed all my "with" statements. > Here's where I am now, and it still doesn't work. > > TIA > Mike > > var doc = qx.ui.core.ClientDocument.getInstance(); > var flow = new qx.ui.layout.FlowLayout; > > flow.setTop(0); > flow.setLeft(0); > flow.setWidth ("100%"); > flow.setHeight("100%"); > > > // Create the Main Menu > var main = new qx.ui.layout.VerticalBoxLayout; > main.setPadding(10); > > // Create the Toolbar > var toolBar = new qx.ui.toolbar.ToolBar; > > > // File Menu > var menuFileLogin = new qx.ui.menu.MenuButton("Log in as > Another User", "/lib/qooxdoo/resource/icon/crystalsvg/16/reload.png"); > var menuFileExit = new qx.ui.menu.MenuButton("Exit", > "/lib/qooxdoo/resource/icon/crystalsvg/16/stop.png"); > > var menuFileMenu = new qx.ui.menu.Menu; > menuFileMenu.add ( menuFileLogin, menuFileExit); > doc.add(menuFileMenu); > > var menuFile = new qx.ui.toolbar.ToolBarMenuButton("File", > menuFileMenu); > > toolBar.add(menuFileMenu); > > main.add(toolBar); > > doc.add(main); > > doc.add(flow); > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? 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