Re: Widget lookup

Hi Ross,

  I really would appreciate if you could summarize
your findings so far.

> Found the undocumented trick for menubars!
> 
> Unlike the Ramses example in which the
> menubar is more a cosmetic showpiece, if
> you want menubars to actually trigger
> actions in your application, then you
> need to create the menubar *after* you
> have created your content and populated
> the XulManager with the necessary
> XActions - menubars are "thin" widgets
> that do pure lookup with no real creation
> abilities.

  That's right. You need to register the XUL actions
before you create the menubar. As an example check out
the notepad demo in the ramses suite.

  Although some Ramses examples only have "dummy"
menus, others such as forms, notepad, etc. have real
working menus. 

> Now if I can only find the hook to trigger
> tabbox tab actions :-)

  I guess the best solution so far is to add an id to
the tabbox and them look it up by walking the
top-level box component tree using Swing methods.

  See Daves mails for details.

  I will add his code and suggestions in the upcoming
Beta 8 Refresh (or in Beta 9 depending how it works
out).

  - Gerald



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