Re: Menubar unusable?

Hi Ross,

I hadn't understood your problem with the Menubar... I
did integrate them about two weeks ago in my
application : I just pasted and copied then modified
some code from Ramses suite to get it working. Indeed
it seems to work like magic (no glue code appearant).
Since then I didn't had time to dig into the code to
better understand the underlying machinery.

About the luxor tabbed pane, I also havent' been able
to integrate it correctly in my application either. So
I just used plain JTabbedPane. In fact, I have not
been able to completly remove swing code from my
application, but rather try to reach a 90% luxor based
GUI, using plain swing for my far-to-specific
requirements.

Cheers,

Denis

--- Ross Wetmore <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Found the undocumented trick for menubars!
> 
> If you stare at the *Def and XulManager code
> long enough, then it becomes apparent that ...
> 
> 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.
> 
> demo/menu/AppFrame.java:
>        // get toolbar
>        JToolBar toolBar = xul.createToolBar(
> Chrome.ToolBar.MAIN );
>        getContentPane().add( toolBar,
> BorderLayout.NORTH );
> 
>        // get menubar
>        JMenuBar menuBar = xul.createMenuBar(
> Chrome.MenuBar.MAIN );
>        setJMenuBar( menuBar );
> 
> +     // Move this above the previous two if you
> actually want to
> +     // have them attach to any XulActions this
> might define.
>        // get main content box
>        JComponent content =
> xul.createJComponentFromBox( Chrome.Box.CONTENT );
> 
> The fact that menubars are standalone
> XUL elements that cannot be placed inside
> other boxes should also be documented as
> this appears to be a Luxor-specific
> restriction.
> 
> Now if I can only find the hook to trigger
> tabbox tab actions :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> RossW
> =====
> 
> Ross Wetmore wrote:
> > I've been poking around the menubar and tabbox
> > problem and am finding menubars to be rather
> > useless or certainly obscure in operational
> > mechanics of hooking them up to anything let
> > alone tabbox panel operations.
> > 
> > First, one gets Xul errors everytime one puts
> > a menubar inside any other box, or vice versa.
> > They really appear to be operational only as
> > standalone elements. This is reinforced by the
> > fact the any examples seem to create them with
> > explicit code like this outside of any other
> > component, i.e. in the static Main  ...
> >   JMenuBar menuBar = xul.createMenuBar("mBar");
> > 
> > The examples do not appear to show anything but
> > the menu facade, or pure Xul effects, i.e. I have
> > not seen a menubar example that actually invokes
> > an Action or is updated by an Input.
> > 
> > If you then create your component by subclassing
> > XulForm or whatever, there seems to be no linkage
> > between the XulInputs and XulActions of the two.
> > 
> > This may boild down to the unanswered question
> > about what are the defined Luxor scoping rules.
> > 
> > But it looks like the LinkControls code in the
> > Xul*Helpers really doesn't allow cross actions
> > i.e. any action to be shared between two top
> > level box-like objects.
> > 
> > What am I missing?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > RossW
> > =====
> > 
> >
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