opposed to the way you were doing. It's in the Flex Application
Development PDF under Menu Controls.
Thanks,
Sof
--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Jordan Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> That did it! Thank you!
>
> I was apparently going down the wrong path, because when I traced the
> event object itself, I was not seeing a "menuItem" property...so it's
> just magically there. Why would that property not show up?
>
> Cheers
>
> On 4/22/06, sof4real03 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Try accessing your label attribute as follows:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] and then you should be able to retrieve the
> > value.
> >
> > Let me know if tht works for you.
> > -Sof
> >
> >
> > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "Jordan Snyder" <jordan.lists@>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'm using Flex 2 Beta 2, and I'm trying to catch MenuBar events.
> > >
> > > I've already been through the workarounds in order to display
E4X XML
> > > dataproviders correctly, ie, using showRoot="false",
> > > labelField="@label", etc.
> > >
> > > However, whenever a MenuBar event fires, the event object does not
> > > contain a menuItem property. I can trace the event object and see
> > > that it contains no menuItem. Here is my code, in case I've missed
> > > something silly.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > mx:Script><![CDATA[
> > > import mx.managers.PopUpManager;
> > > import mx.controls.Menu;
> > > import mx.controls.MenuBar;
> > > import mx.events.MenuEvent;
> > >
> > >
> > > private function changeEvt(event:MenuEvent):void {
> > > flash.util.trace("crazy"+event);
> > > if(event.menuItem.attributes.label == "Settings...") {
> > > showSettings();
> > > }
> > > }
> > >
> > >
> > > private function showSettings():void {
> > > // Create the TitleWindow container.
> > > var settingsWindow:IFlexDisplayObject =
> > > PopUpManager.createPopUp(this,
> > > SettingsMenu, false);
> > > }
> > >
> > > ]]>
> > > </mx:Script>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > <mx:MenuBar x="0" y="0" width="1024" height="20" id="FileBar"
> > > change="changeEvt(event)" labelField="@label" showRoot="false">
> > > <mx:dataProvider>
> > > <mx:XML format="e4x">
> > > <menuitem label="File">
> > > <menuitem label="Exit" />
> > > </menuitem>
> > > <menuitem label="Edit">
> > > <menuitem label="Mode">
> > > <menuitem label="** Mode"/>
> > > <menuitem label="** Mode"/>
> > > </menuitem>
> > > <menuitem label="Users..." />
> > > <menuitem label="IP Address List..." />
> > > <menuitem label="Settings..." />
> > > </menuitem>
> > > <menuitem label="View">
> > > <menuitem label="Logs..." />
> > > <menuitem label="Reports..." />
> > > </menuitem>
> > > <menuitem label="Window">
> > > <menuitem label="***" />
> > > <menuitem label="***" />
> > > </menuitem>
> > > <menuitem label="Help">
> > > <menuitem label="*** Help..." />
> > > <menuitem label="Support" />
> > > <menuitem label="Check for Updates..." />
> > > <menuitem label="About ****" />
> > > </menuitem>
> > >
> > > </mx:XML>
> > > </mx:dataProvider>
> > >
> > > </mx:MenuBar>
> > >
> > > The trace shows this:
> > >
> > > crazy[Event type="change" bubbles=false cancelable=true
eventPhase=2]
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Is there a workaround? Is anyone getting MenuBar events to work in
> > Beta 2?
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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