Noted that there could be improvement in our tutorial examples for desktop applications.
Thanks, ~Roger -----Original Message----- From: Ilya Zimnovich [mailto:zimnov...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 9:07 AM To: user@pivot.apache.org Subject: Re: Error setting property "content"... Dear Roger, Thanks for your help! You are right, the problem was due to the MenuBars class was derived from Window. I just examined the MenuBars tutorial and took the MenuBars class and the "menu_bars.bxml" file from the example as the basis for the top level menu of my application. Well, it turned out however that the MenuBars class was actually a top level window, while I thought (because of its name) that it is a container for menu items. I feel like it should be called something like MenuBarsWindow or MenuBarsFrame to avoid confusion. I sure the Apache Pivot tutorials are missing the example of StockTracker like desktop application with top level menus, tool-bars and maybe child panels or dialogs for the Apache Pivot newbies to start with. Best Regards, Ilya A. Zimnovich On 24.03.2014 06:40, Roger and Beth Whitcomb wrote: > Hi Ilya, > Welcome to Pivot! Thanks for bringing your questions to the list. > Every question helps other people too! > > So, to your question: it looks like the main .bxml you load is > the modified "stock_tracker_window.bxml", and that you are trying to > put a window into the middle of that TablePane. I'm not sure why you > are doing that, but that is the main problem. I presume that your > MenuBars class is derived from Window, which must be a top-level > object (as the error message implies). A Window is not meant to be > put inside other components, but to be the parent of other components. > It looks to me like you could simply load your "menu2.bxml" as the > main .bxml file of your application and everything would work fine. > > HTH, > ~Roger > > On 3/23/14 3:42 PM, Ilya Zimnovich wrote: >> Dear Apache Pivot experts, >> >> I would like to add a top level menu bar to the application. I have >> modified the StockTracker app's main window BXML file like this: >> >> stock_tracker_window.bxml >> .... >> <TablePane styles="{padding:8, horizontalSpacing:6, >> verticalSpacing:6}"> >> <columns> >> <TablePane.Column width="1*" /> >> </columns> >> >> <TablePane.Row height="-1"> >> <Border styles="{padding:6, color:10}"> >> <bxml:include src="menu_2.bxml"/> >> </Border> >> </TablePane.Row> >> >> <TablePane.Row height="-1"> >> <Label text="%stockTracker" >> styles="{font:{size:14, bold:true}, >> verticalAlignment:'center'}" /> >> </TablePane.Row> >> ..... >> >> After trying to run the application I always got: >> Java.lang.RuntimeException >> Error setting property "content" for type org.apache.pivot.wtk.Border >> to value "com.expo.finance.MenuBars" >> Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Window parent must be >> null or display, cannot be org.apache.pivot.wtk.Border >> >> Below is the source of "menu_2.bxml" file: >> .... >> <menus:MenuBars title="Menu Bars" maximized="true" >> styles="{padding:{top:0, left:4, bottom:4, right:4}, >> showWindowControls:false}" >> xmlns:bxml="http://pivot.apache.org/bxml"; >> xmlns:content="org.apache.pivot.wtk.content" >> xmlns:menus="com.expo.finance" >> xmlns="org.apache.pivot.wtk"> >> <bxml:define> >> <FileBrowserSheet bxml:id="fileBrowserSheet"/> >> </bxml:define> >> >> <actionMappings> >> <Window.ActionMapping action="fileNew" keyStroke="CMD-N"/> >> <Window.ActionMapping action="fileOpen" keyStroke="CMD-O"/> >> </actionMappings> >> >> <menuBar> >> <MenuBar> >> <MenuBar.Item buttonData="File"> >> <Menu> >> <Menu.Section> >> <Menu.Item action="fileNew"> >> <buttonData> >> <content:MenuItemData text="New" >> keyboardShortcut="CMD-N"/> >> </buttonData> >> </Menu.Item> >> >> <Menu.Item action="fileOpen"> >> <buttonData> >> <content:MenuItemData text="Open" >> keyboardShortcut="CMD-O"/> >> </buttonData> >> </Menu.Item> >> </Menu.Section> >> </Menu> >> </MenuBar.Item> >> >> </MenuBar> >> </menuBar> >> >> </menus:MenuBars> >> .... >> >> Best Regards, >> Ilya A. Zimnovich >> >> >> >
