Re: help with menus

[Greg Brown]

You need to add the items to the menu bar's items collection:

    mb.getItems().add(iFile);
    mb.getItems().add(iHelp);


On Apr 6, 2011, at 2:38 PM, Luís Eduardo wrote:

> 
>    Hi,
> 
>    I am struggling with simple menus in Pivot.
>    What i need is to programmatic construct the menus.
>    What is wrong with this code???
>    Although the frame opens, the menu never shows.  (grrr)
> 
> 
> @Override
>    public void startup(Display display, Map<String, String> properties) 
> throws Exception {
>        frame = new Frame();
>        frame.setPreferredSize(new Dimensions(800, 600));
> 
>        MenuBar mb = new MenuBar();
>        Item iFile = new Item("File");
>        Item iHelp = new Item("Help");
>        mb.add(iFile);
>        mb.add(iHelp);
>        frame.setMenuBar(mb);
>        // mb.setShy(false)  // dammit
> 
>        frame.open(display);
>    }