RE: [flexcoders] Controlling MenuBar Submenus via Code frustrations

2007-10-29 Thread Alex Harui 
The menudatadescriptor has methods isToggled/get/setToggled, IIRC.
Usually that maps to toggled properties or attributes in the
dataprovider you sent to the MenuBar.

 

Manipulating the data in the dataprovider is the recommended way of
changing the state of the buttons.  It is not recommended that you do it
from the Menu instances as they can be created and destroyed
dynamically.

 



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Mike Anderson
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 1:15 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Controlling MenuBar Submenus via Code frustrations

 

Greetings All,

I've burned an entire DAY searching the web for examples of how to
control sub-menus in a MenuBar control, via code. The main types of
things I need to accomplish, is toggling Checkboxes and Radio Buttons,
when certain application variables change.

My MenuBar has 6 primary menus across the top, and each primary menu,
could have any number of additional sub-menus (which have several
variations of menu types - Checkboxes, Radio Buttons, etc.)

My MenuBar is being populated via an external XML File.

Per the docs, each top level menu is considered a 'MenuBarItem', but
there is very little helpful information after that. All the help docs
focus primarily on listening for MenuBar events and writing functions to
respond - but there is NOTHING on how to do the reverse.

I consider myself to be a fairly seasoned Flex Programmer, but this
MenuBar stuff has got me stumped, and quite frustrated.

If anybody has any examples on this topic, I would be VERY grateful.

Thanks in advance for any help,

Mike

[flexcoders] Controlling MenuBar Submenus via Code frustrations

2007-10-29 Thread Mike Anderson 
Greetings All,

I've burned an entire DAY searching the web for examples of how to
control sub-menus in a MenuBar control, via code.  The main types of
things I need to accomplish, is toggling Checkboxes and Radio Buttons,
when certain application variables change.

My MenuBar has 6 primary menus across the top, and each primary menu,
could have any number of additional sub-menus (which have several
variations of menu types - Checkboxes, Radio Buttons, etc.)

My MenuBar is being populated via an external XML File.

Per the docs, each top level menu is considered a 'MenuBarItem', but
there is very little helpful information after that.  All the help docs
focus primarily on listening for MenuBar events and writing functions to
respond - but there is NOTHING on how to do the reverse.

I consider myself to be a fairly seasoned Flex Programmer, but this
MenuBar stuff has got me stumped, and quite frustrated.

If anybody has any examples on this topic, I would be VERY grateful.

Thanks in advance for any help,

Mike

RE: [flexcoders] Controlling MenuBar Submenus via Code frustrations

2007-10-29 Thread Tracy Spratt 
Everything works through the dataProvider.  First use e4x expressions to
find the node you want to change, then set the attribute.  Below are
some lines from some of my code.  I am only setting enabled and the
label, but the same techniques should work for checkboxes, etc.

 

Tracy

 

  public function set xmlSelectedItem(xml:XML):void

  {

_xmlSelectedItem = xml;

var sNodeName:String;

var sActionType:String;

var sAction:String;

var sTemp:String = ;

var sLabel:String = ;

var xmlCopiedItem:XML;



if (_xmlSelectedItem)  {

  

  sNodeName = _xmlSelectedItem.name();

  sActionType = [EMAIL PROTECTED];

  sAction = [EMAIL PROTECTED];

  

  xmlMenu..menuitem.(attribute(action) ==
'deleteSelected')[EMAIL PROTECTED] = true;

  xmlMenu..menuitem.(attribute(action) ==
'copySelected')[EMAIL PROTECTED] = true;

  xmlMenu..menuitem.(attribute(action) ==
'addMenuItem')[EMAIL PROTECTED] = true;

  xmlMenu..menuitem.(attribute(action) ==
'addAppItem')[EMAIL PROTECTED] = true;  

  if (sNodeName == menu)  {

sTemp =  to ' + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + '

  } 

  else  {

   sTemp =  to ' + [EMAIL PROTECTED] + ';

  } 

sLabel =  Add Menu Item + sTemp;

xmlMenu..menuitem.(attribute(action) == 'addMenuItem')[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]
= sLabel;

sLabel =  Add Application Item + sTemp;

xmlMenu..menuitem.(attribute(action) == 'addAppItem')[EMAIL 
PROTECTED] =
sLabel;

...



From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Mike Anderson

Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 4:15 PM

To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com

Subject: [flexcoders] Controlling MenuBar Submenus via Code frustrations

 

Greetings All,

 

I've burned an entire DAY searching the web for examples of how to

control sub-menus in a MenuBar control, via code. The main types of

things I need to accomplish, is toggling Checkboxes and Radio Buttons,

when certain application variables change.

 

My MenuBar has 6 primary menus across the top, and each primary menu,

could have any number of additional sub-menus (which have several

variations of menu types - Checkboxes, Radio Buttons, etc.)

 

My MenuBar is being populated via an external XML File.

 

Per the docs, each top level menu is considered a 'MenuBarItem', but

there is very little helpful information after that. All the help docs

focus primarily on listening for MenuBar events and writing functions to

respond - but there is NOTHING on how to do the reverse.

 

I consider myself to be a fairly seasoned Flex Programmer, but this

MenuBar stuff has got me stumped, and quite frustrated.

 

If anybody has any examples on this topic, I would be VERY grateful.

 

Thanks in advance for any help,

 

Mike