You should be able to do that, but I agree that it is probably better not to.
On Mar 3, 2011, at 2:38 PM, Daniel Ziltener wrote: > I think the problem was that I included both the Application interface and > the Bindable interface which led to a behaviour that's not expected by a > normal Pivot user... Anyway I think it's better if I do that separately. > > 2011/3/3 Greg Brown <[email protected]> > What is the stack trace of the exception? > > > On Mar 3, 2011, at 10:56 AM, Daniel Ziltener wrote: > >> Now I'm getting an IllegalArgumentException claiming that the "location is >> null". The definition of the MainWindow tag is now: >> >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> >> <ui:MainWindow title="SemanticNotes" maximized="true" >> xmlns:bxml="http://pivot.apache.org/bxml"; >> xmlns:ui="ch.lyrion.semanticnotes.desktop.ui" >> xmlns="org.apache.pivot.wtk"> >> <bxml:define> >> <MenuBar xmlns:content="org.apache.pivot.wtk.content" >> bxml:id="menuBar"> >> <MenuBar.Item buttonData="Testmenu"> >> <Menu.Section> >> <Menu.Item> >> <buttonData> >> <content:MenuItemData text="New" >> keyboardShortcut="CMD-N"/> >> </buttonData> >> </Menu.Item> >> </Menu.Section> >> </MenuBar.Item> >> </MenuBar> >> </bxml:define> >> >> <Panel> >> <bxml:include src="BookPanel.bxml" /> >> </Panel> >> </ui:MainWindow> >> >> 2011/3/3 Greg Brown <[email protected]> >> Try changing it to something like this: >> >> <bar:MainWindow title="SemanticNotes" maximized="true" >> xmlns:bxml="http://pivot.apache.org/bxml"; >> xmlns:foo="com.foo.bar" xmlns="org.apache.pivot.wtk"> >> >> replacing "foo" and "com.foo.bar" with your preferred namespace prefix and >> the name of the package containing MainWindow. As written, you are simply >> creating an instance of org.apache.pivot.wtk.Window, which is probably not >> what you want. >> >> Also, if you don't want to set the menu bar using a <menuBar> element, you >> should probably wrap the <MenuBar> in a <bxml:define> block. Otherwise, it >> will be set as the Window's content, then replaced by the Panel when that >> element is processed. >> >> G >> >> On Mar 3, 2011, at 10:34 AM, Daniel Ziltener wrote: >> >>> No, it isn't a typo. But I changed it to MainWindow, now. But it doesn't >>> change anything. >>> I did assign an id to the menuBar: "<MenuBar >>> xmlns:content="org.apache.pivot.wtk.content" bxml:id="menuBar">". >>> As I now found out, "initialize" never gets called. So I moved the code >>> "setMenu" into the startup method. That doesn't work, too. And I know why: >>> The menuBar instance doesn't get assigned to my menuBar variable. >>> >>> >>> 2011/3/3 Greg Brown <[email protected]> >>> The root element in your example is Window, not MainWindow - is that a typo? >>> >>> Couple other questions: >>> 1) Why call setMenu() manually? Why not just declare the menu in BXML? >>> >>> 2) Is it possible that you did not assign an ID to your menu bar so that >>> your menuBar member variable is null when initialize() is called? >>> >>> >>> On Mar 3, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Daniel Ziltener wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> It's me again... I'm trying to add a MenuBar to a window I created. So I >>>> have a class MainWindow and a corresponding MainWindow.bxml. >>>> The MainWindow extends Frame and implements Application and Bindable and >>>> is essentially built like the "Menu Bars" sample on the pivot page, except >>>> that I manually add the MenuBar: >>>> I have a "@BXML MenuBar menuBar = null" which gets injected and then I use >>>> "this.setMenuBar(menuBar)" in the initialize-Method to add the MenuBar to >>>> the window. The problem is: There is no menubar displayed. I just keep >>>> getting a window without a menubar. >>>> My BXML-File is quite short, so I include it: >>>> >>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> >>>> <Window title="SemanticNotes" maximized="true" >>>> xmlns:bxml="http://pivot.apache.org/bxml"; xmlns="org.apache.pivot.wtk"> >>>> <MenuBar xmlns:content="org.apache.pivot.wtk.content" >>>> bxml:id="menuBar"> >>>> <MenuBar.Item buttonData="Testmenu"> >>>> <Menu.Section> >>>> <Menu.Item> >>>> <buttonData> >>>> <content:MenuItemData text="New" keyboardShortcut="CMD-N"/> >>>> </buttonData> >>>> </Menu.Item> >>>> </Menu.Section> >>>> </MenuBar.Item> >>>> </MenuBar> >>>> >>>> <Panel> >>>> <bxml:include src="BookPanel.bxml" /> >>>> </Panel> >>>> </Window> >>>> >>>> What's wrong with that? >>> >>> >> >> > >
