Comments on: Flex Menu Accelerators

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:45:33 +0000

gembin, because of the current limitations of the framework and the fact that Flex 4 will make this type of enhancement much easier, I am not developing this component any further. If you want to take a stab at it though, take a look at newton’s post above and my response for a starting point. And as always, I encourage you to share your findings with the community!

By: gembin

gembin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:45:21 +0000

hi, can you make it supports both icon and accelerator

By: po2son

po2son — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 09:03:08 +0000

ops… missed :(

private function onKeyUp( event:KeyboardEvent ):void
{
var o:XML;
for each( var accelerator:Accelerator in _accelerators )
{
if( accelerator.test( event ) ) {
for each (o in this.menubarXML..menuitem)
{
if (String(o.@data) == String(accelerator.data)) {
if (o.@type==”check”) {
o.@toggled = String(!(o.@toggled == “true”));
}
}
}
handleMenuFunction( accelerator.data as String );
}
}
}

By: po2son

po2son — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 06:00:06 +0000

change toggled attribute of check type menu when called by Accelerator.

private function onKeyUp( event:KeyboardEvent ):void
{
var o:XML;
for each( var accelerator:Accelerator in _accelerators )
{
if( accelerator.test( event ) )
for each (o in this.menuProvider..menuitem)
{
if (String(o.@data) == String(accelerator.data)) {
if (o.@type==”check”) {
o.@toggled = String(!(o.@toggled == “true”));
}
}
}
handleMenuFunction( accelerator.data as String );
}
}

By: Krishna

Krishna — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:05:30 +0000

I have another problem like i want to place icon in the menus with accelerator.. Can you help me in doing so.

By: Krishna

Krishna — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:20:32 +0000

You make it very easy of the functionality.
I have a problem with placing the shortcut Key side of label like “Open Ctrl+O”. Can you please help me in doing so.

Thanks in advance

By: newton

newton — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 04:08:39 +0000

Thanks, by the time I saw your reply I had already done it.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:59:46 +0000

Newton, yes this is possible. You would have to add the new label into the AcceleratorMenuItemRenderer class and modify the layout logic in updateDisplayList() to arrange everything the way you want it.

By: newton

newton — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:23:05 +0000

Is there any chance if you can split the label into two text fields and let the iconField be unchanged because I was trying to keep my icons stay to the left of the labels

By: ilew

ilew — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:40:12 +0000

First, thank you for your source. It is so helpful for me.
I have one question: why implement KeyUtils by yourself? Maybe we could use flash.ui.Keyboard.