Menus for web client

Classic Servoy
1

Do the built-in ‘plugins’ for menu work in web client ? I have a strong suspicion that they don’t.

For anyone who has built a ‘standard’ menu like: File, Edit, View, Help, etc for web client what did you do ?

Thanks in advance

2

We strung a bunch of popup menus across the top in a form that pretends its a tool bar. Looks kind of lousy, is sluggish as hell, but its the only thing Servoy offers at this time.

If they wan t to really compete with .NET I hope they fix this deficiency some day.

Gary

3

Thanks for your reply Gary.

I tried the ‘popupmenu’ plugin and I can get a simple popmenu to appear.
However, a couple of things don’t work.

  1. the createCheckboxMenuItem doesn’t paint me a checkbox (no biggie cause I really don’t need one at the moment)
  2. the createRadioButtonMenuItem doesn’t paint me a radio button (no biggie cause I really don’t need one at the moment)
  3. the ‘enabled’ property doesn’t get rendered (i.e. if I set a menu item’s “.setEnabled(false)” I still see the item normally in web client - it does work correctly in Smart Client… but I’m not interested in Smart Client.

Here’s a snippet of code (its really ugly but this is just a test mule at this point). The popupMenuSetup() method is involved for the ‘onAction’ event of a label I’ve placed at the top of one of my forms.

function popupMenuSetup()
{
  var menu = new Array(
  plugins.popupmenu.createMenuItem('A', junk1),
  plugins.popupmenu.createMenuItem('-'),
  plugins.popupmenu.createCheckboxMenuItem('B',junk2),
  plugins.popupmenu.createRadioButtonMenuItem('C',junk3),  
  plugins.popupmenu.createMenuItem('<html><b>Hello</b></html>',junk4)
  );

  menu[3].setEnabled(false);

  var elem = elements[application.getMethodTriggerElementName()];
  if (elem != null)
  {
    plugins.popupmenu.showPopupMenu(elem, menu);
  }

}

function junk1()
{
  var lv_junk1 = 0;
}

function junk2()
{
  var lv_junk2 = 0;
}

...

Any thoughts ??
Thanks in advance

4

AFAIK menus & dialog boxes are amongst the very few features that do not work in Web Client.

Two options are to use FormInDialog or to show/hide Tab Panel(s) with the menu choices that you require - both can be elegant and fast with the right code :)

If you need some sample code post more info on what you want to achieve and I’ll be happy to dig something out.

Regards

5

I would be interested in sample code for menus in Web Client. I have applications that require several layers of sub menus.

Thanks.