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
>>
>>
>>
>
