Hello Bob et al. :)
FYI: I modified the Menu.java code in such a way that you can create
menuitems based on ActionLinks. I saw the menu example, where the logout
item was added manually, which does not integrate the item in the menu
nicely.
Here's an example menu.xml which incorporates an ActionLink
<menu>
<menu label="Home">
<menu separator="true" roles="SU, DU, VU, WU"/>
<menu *label="logoffLink" **actionlink="true"* roles="SU, DU, VU, WU"/>
</menu>
</menu>
The label logoffLink corresponds to an ActionLink I added in my model in
my TemplatePage class:
ActionLink logoffLink = new ActionLink("*logoffLink*",
getMessage("logoffLink"), this, "onLogOff");
addControl(logoffLink);
getModel().put("menu", Menu.getRootMenu() );
The macro that renders the menu is modified slightly:
#foreach ($subMenu in $topMenu.children)
#if ($subMenu.isUserInRoles())
><li>
*#if ( $subMenu.isActionLink() )
#evaluate($subMenu)
#else
$subMenu
#end*
</li
#end
#end
With Menu#actionLink being true, the Menu will render the label as
$label, making is suitable for the Velocity #evaluate( ) function.
If you want the code you can probably do it yourself now, but I'm happy
to submit it somewhere.
Cheers,
WarnerJan
