depends on the framework... haxeui-heaps runs on hl, for me haxeui-openfl does too - but @User has had issues, and i have no idea if kha can run on hl... probably?

kha is weird

It has intergration for hashlink/c

but not for the vm

@User Strangely, I just tried to run it on windows (I was previously on mac) and got the exact same error. Well, anyway HL is not stopping me from developing, so I'll leave it quiet, for the moment. In the future I'll investigate further.

All good, thanks for the feedback

This snippet works fine for me. (this one has id="test" in a Button item in main.xml)

haxe
var main: VBox = ComponentMacros.buildComponent("assets/ui/xml/main.xml");
Screen.instance.addComponent(main);
var button: Button = main.findComponent("test", Button, true);
trace(button);

This one traces: null (this one has id="test" in a MenuItem item in main.xml)

haxe
var main: VBox = ComponentMacros.buildComponent("assets/ui/xml/main.xml");
Screen.instance.addComponent(main);
var button: MenuItem = main.findComponent("test", MenuItem, true);
trace(button);

Is this expected?

The problem here is the menu items are created dynamically, on demand as they parent menu are shown

i think there is a way around it though, ill have to have a look, is there any chance you could open an issue on haxeui-core repo on GH? Just so it doesnt get lost

@User https://github.com/haxeui/haxeui-core/issues/348

cool - thanks

what are you actually trying to do with the menu item? I mean, why do you want to "find" it?

> I can't find another another way of adding actions to MenuItens by code.

what does that mean?

I just wanted to add an action for when it's clicked, and since the only "documentation" I found was this https://github.com/haxeui/haxeui-templates/blob/master/flash-develop/%24(BaseDir)/Projects/550%20HaxeUI%20-%20OpenFL%20Project/src/%24(PackagePath)/Main.hx.template

gotcha... so menu behave a little differently in the sense that you dont add listeners to individual items, but rather add a listener to the menu

let me see if i can find an example

you dont have to use xml ofc, just use

.onMenuSelected

Got it, thanks a lot Ian!

I know there's a lot of documentation to come forth, this ended up not even being an issue. Thanks for the help

no probs... leave the ticket open though as it would be nice to be able to use findComponent with menus, like if you wanted to change the text of a menu item or something like that

sure

@User Seems like I can't find Menus as well, even though they are visible all the time. Do you think it's possible do populate a Menu with MenuItems in runtime?

hmmmm... yeah, thats a pretty good point... you mean a sub-menu i guess? I think the same "restrictions" apply (for now)

(they arent really restrictions, im sure something can be done about it, as the menu, in essence, does exist, its just not initialised, etc)

xml
<vbox width="100%">
    <menubar id="menu-bar" width="100%">
        <menu text="File">
            <menuitem id="new" text="New" />
            <menuitem id="export-png" text="Export PNG" />
            <menuitem id="config-scripts-path" text="Configure Scripts Path" />
            <menuitem id="quit" text="Quit" />
        </menu>
        <menu id="tools" text="Tools"></menu>
    </menubar>
</vbox>

Like inserting menuItems in tools

I see... Well no problem, I'll work around that for now

hmmmpppff... yeah, same issue.... those menus wont exist until you "show" them...

menu items i could live with, menus is a little more importat