[flexcoders] Re: problem accessing menuBar component Sub-Items

[valdhor]

Add an event listener to the menubar itself. In the event listener you can find 
out which item was clicked based on the label property.

--- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Gustavo Duenas <gduenas@...> wrote:
>
> Hi I have this menu bar.
> 
> <mx:MenuBar width="1079.697" height="40.151516" id="mBar"  
> labelField="@label" creationComplete="init()" fontSize="14"  
> fillAlphas="[0.26, 0.26, 0.26, 0.26]" fontWeight="bold"  
> cornerRadius="6" color="#071243" fontFamily="Arial"  
> verticalCenter="-4" left="9.05">
>    <mx:dataProvider>
>    <mx:XMLListCollection>
>    <mx:XMLList xmlns="">
>        <item label="Petici—n de Oraci—n"/>
>    <item label="Petici—n de Visita"/>
>    <item label="Cont‡ctenos"/>
>    <item label="Publicaciones">
>    <item label="La Biblia Antiguo Testamento" groupName="libros"/>
>    <item label="La Biblia Nuevo Testamento" groupName="libros"/>
>    <item label="Concordancia Tem‡tica de la Biblia" groupName="libros"/>
>    <item label="Doctrina Cristiana" groupName="libros"/>
>    </item>
>    <item label="Iglesia FLS Blog"/>
>    <item label="Donaciones"/>
>    </mx:XMLList>
>    </mx:XMLListCollection>
>    </mx:dataProvider>
> 
> I wan to access the group name libros items to add evenListeners to  
> them.
> 
> I have this code to access the main ones on the menuBar.
> 
> 
>    protected function init():void{
> 
>    var mbiBlog:MenuBarItem= mBar.menuBarItems[4] as MenuBarItem;
>    mbiBlog.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, openWindowBlog);
>    var mbiAntiguoT:MenuBarItem = mBar.menuBarItems[3].root[1] as  
> MenuBarItem;// I've been trying to access the sub-Items I really don't  
> know how, some help please.
>    mbiAntiguoT.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK, windowBibliaAntigua);
> 
>    }
>