[Project_owners] 'command' attribute breaking menuitems?
Neil
neil at parkwaycc.co.uk
Mon Nov 7 00:42:32 EST 2005
Andy McDonald wrote:
> It seems that a 'command' attribute on a <menuitem/> prevents that
> menuitem from being selected in a dropdown (i.e. <menulist>).
Right, that's an abuse of a menulist - you shouldn't be adding command
handlers to the menuitem. But if you insist...
When an element, such as a key, toolbarbutton or menuitem, prepares to
generate a command event, it first checks for a command attribute on the
element, and if it finds an element with that id, it targets the command
event on that element instead. This means that you only have to declare
one event handler (note that the similar broadcaster works by creating
copies of the event handler, thus consuming memory). But it also results
in the effect you describe. Note that there is no way of knowing what
the initiating element was.
In fact this effect can be utilised to your advantage in the case that
you have menuitems that you don't want to be selected such as a
Customise List... option ;-)
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