Hi, I'm having a bit of a problem with the MenuBar component in Flash.
Using Flash 8 Pro. I've set up a MenuBar as scripted below using XML as
the source. The menu works fine apart from the fact that I cannot Tab
to it as I can other items in my system. I've removed Flash's built in
focusManager as one has been written for this project.
The following line adds the menubar to the custom focus management
object in the same way as the other things in the system but it just
doesn't want to be tabbed to. Any ideas why this might be?
root.FocusManagementObj.registerScreenElement(xmlMenuBar,"Program Menu
Bar");
As I can't tab to it, is it possible to set up keyboard shortcuts to the
menu in a similar way to the usual Alt-F for the File item on most
software menus?
Regards,
Gareth.
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//
// Test code so far
//
//
//
// If we import the controls, we can then use createClassObject, as seen
// a few lines down, to create a MenuBar without actually having to
place // a MenuBar component on the stage. import mx.controls.MenuBar;
import mx.controls.Menu; import mx.events.EventDispatcher; import
mx.utils.Delegate; import learningobject.view.FocusManagement;
// ====================================================================
//var FocusManagementObj:FocusManagement;
//_root.focusManager.tabEnabled = false;
_root.focusManager.removeMovieClip();
// ====================================================================
// Create a MenuBar object on the screen
this.createClassObject(mx.controls.MenuBar, "xmlMenuBar", 25); // XML
var myDP_xml:XML; // Listener object var fileListener:Object; //
====================================================================
// Set up tab index etc.
xmlMenuBar.tabEnabled = true;
//xmlMenuBar.tabIndex = 1;
_root.FocusManagementObj.registerScreenElement(xmlMenuBar,"Program Menu
Bar"); trace("MENU--MENU--MENU"); //
====================================================================
//define styles for the ComboBox component
xmlMenuBar.setStyle("backgroundColor", 0xD8CCB6);
//xmlMenuBar.setStyle("alternatingRowColors", [0xE9E1D6, 0xCEBEA6]);
xmlMenuBar.setStyle("color", 0x666666);
xmlMenuBar.setStyle("embedFonts", false);
xmlMenuBar.setStyle("textAlign", "left");
//xmlMenuBar.setStyle("fontStyle", "italic"); //
====================================================================
myDP_xml = new XML();
myDP_xml.ignoreWhite = true;
myDP_xml.onLoad = function(success:Boolean) {
if (success) {
// Set the size and position of the menu using XML values
xmlMenuBar._height =
myDP_xml.firstChild.nextSibling.attributes.menuHeight;
xmlMenuBar._width =
myDP_xml.firstChild.nextSibling.attributes.menuWidth;
xmlMenuBar._x = myDP_xml.firstChild.nextSibling.attributes.xPos;
xmlMenuBar._y = myDP_xml.firstChild.nextSibling.attributes.yPos;
//
// set some of the style values from XML data
xmlMenuBar.setStyle("fontFamily",
myDP_xml.firstChild.nextSibling.attributes.menuFont);
xmlMenuBar.setStyle("fontSize",
myDP_xml.firstChild.nextSibling.attributes.menuFontSize);
xmlMenuBar.setStyle("themeColor",
myDP_xml.firstChild.nextSibling.attributes.menuColour);
//
// populate the menu with the XML values
xmlMenuBar.dataProvider = myDP_xml.firstChild;
//trace(myDP_xml.firstChild);
} else {
trace("error loading XML file");
}
};
myDP_xml.load("menuBarXML.xml");
//
// The listenered for the file menu (and submenus)
fileListener = new Object();
fileListener.change = function(eventObj:Object):Void {
eventObj.menuItem.attributes.selected = "true";
xmlMenuBar.setMenuItemSelected(eventObj.menuItem, true);
eventObj.menu.refresh(); //trace(eventObj.menuItem.attributes.label);
//
//var menuNum = eventObj.menu._name;
//trace(menuNum);
//
//var menuItemNum = eventObj.menu.indexOf(eventObj.menuItem);
//trace(menuItemNum);
//
//eventObj.menu.TextArea.setStyle("fontStyle", "italic");
//
//var myItem:mx.controls.Menu =
eventObj.menu.getMenuItemAt(menuItemNum);
//trace(myItem); //trace(eventObj.menu.getMenuItemAt(menuItemNum));
//trace("getMenuAt -> "+xmlMenuBar.getMenuAt(menuItemNum));
//var instName = eventObj.menuItem.attributes.instanceName;
//
//eventObj.menuItem.attributes.selected = "true";
//
//xmlMenuBar.setMenuItemSelected(eventObj.menuItem, true);
//
switch(eventObj.menuItem.attributes.linkType) {
case "web":
//getURL(eventObj.menuItem.attributes.linkTo, "_blank");
break;
case "email":
//getURL("mailto:"+eventObj.menuItem.attributes.linkTo <mailto:> ,
"_blank");
break;
case "keyframe":
//gotoAndPlay(eventObj.menuItem.attributes.linkTo);
break;
case "exit":
getURL("javascript:closeWindow()");
break;
}
};
// register the listeners with the separate menus
xmlMenuBar.addEventListener("change", fileListener);
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