From: <bra...@om...> - 2005-03-28 22:32:34
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Whoops, I must be blind. Apparently PageBackground objects have no attribute getParent(). pyt...@li... wrote on 03/28/2005 04:21:51 PM: > > So, I've now got a main window with a tabbed interface and a global menubar > that works for all the tabs. However, I still need to spawn a few > child windows, and these > need to have a copy of the main menubar. I have tried binding the > menubar of the > parent during the background initialization of the child window, like so: > > class MyBackground( model.Background): > def on_initialize(self, event): > self.menuBar = self.getParent().menuBar > > This doesn't work, although it doesn't seem to generate any > exceptions that I can see. > I have tried it on child windows whose resource file contains no > menubar, and I have tried > it on child windows whose resource file contains no menubar. > > Is there a method for refreshing the menubar? > > Thanks! > > "Kevin Altis" <al...@se...> wrote on 03/21/2005 10:25:35 AM: > > > On Mar 19, 2005, at 7:27 PM, bra...@om... wrote: > > > > > > > > I'm thinking I can get by with a tabbed interface for the main window, > > > and go with small menu-less child windows for some of the individual > > > forms. For instance, an Employees tab would show a multiColumnList of > > > employees with search filters at the top. To edit an employee record, > > > the user doubleclicks a line and an employee edit window pops up. This > > > seems like a workable approach. I guess I need to take a look at how > > > to implement the Notebook. > > > > > > > A tabbed interface seems like the way to go. There is currently no > > option to toggle the menubar for a window on and off in the > > resourceEditor. The reason I didn't do that is if someone made a bunch > > of menus and then accidentally got rid of them they would be pretty > > upset, and we have no undo feature. Instead when you create your > > background by using New under the File menu, select the appropriate > > template, for whether you want menus or not. > > > > The "main" menubar is always available to all windows. On the main > > background, it is just self.menuBar so on a child window you would > > access it as self.getParent().menuBar. > > > > When you use a single menubar and child windows, one of the things you > > have to watch out for is focus. Your main window will get the focus. If > > you run with the Message Watcher you'll see the deactivate, loseFocus, > > activate, loseFocus, gainFocus messages fire. Depending on what you > > want to do, you'll probably need to use the findFocus() method or some > > other method of tracking what is going on in your child window and > > saving that information in an on_deactivate method which you would then > > access in your main window menu item event handler. > > > > ka |