Ah, I see what is happening. In MenuBar.java at line 162 (inside "isEnabled) it is checking for a null Menu item. So, the MenuBar is definitely assuming that every MenuBar.Item will itself contain a Menu. I wonder what would happen if you were to define an empty Menu (as in <Menu/>) underneath your MenuBar.Item .... Probably wouldn't be very nice visually ....
I'm not sure how to suggest working around this otherwise.... ~Roger Whitcomb From: Joseph Paterson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 2:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Simple button in MenuBar Hi Roger, The action is definitely enabled and works fine if it is contained within an enclosing menu. My menu bar has plenty of MenuBar.Item with menus within them which work fine, but what I want is to have a button to access an action directly on the menu bar, not within a menu on the menu bar (if that makes sense), a bit like a toolbar if you like. Cheers, Joseph. On 21/11/2012, at 4:48 AM, "Roger L. Whitcomb" <[email protected]> wrote: Hi Joseph, I've never seen this before, and our application has a lot of menu bar stuff. Can you do some debugging or some debug printouts to verify that the action has not been disabled by some other means? What happens if you change the action on this item to something else? ~Roger Whitcomb From: Joseph Paterson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 11:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Simple button in MenuBar Hi all, My application contains a MenuBar in which I would like to place a simple button (to give easy access to a particular action), and I'm not sure how to do this. I've got the following code: <MenuBar> [...] <MenuBar.Item action="refresh"> <buttonData> <content:MenuItemData text="Refresh" icon="/icon/refresh_16x16.png"/> </buttonData> </MenuBar.Item> </MenuBar> With the code above I do get something appearing in the menu bar, but it is disabled (the "refresh" action is enabled). Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Joseph.
