YUI Library Examples: Menu Family: Setting Menu Configuration Properties At Runtime

Setting MenuItem configuration properties at runtime

A MenuItem has a number of configuration properties that affect its behavior and visual rendering. Any of these configuration properties can be set at runtime via the setProperty method of the item's configuration object (accessible via its cfg property.

This example ulitizes the following configuration properties: text, selected, disabled, helptext, url, emphasis, strongemphasis, and checked.

/*
     "configChange" event handler for each MenuItem instance - used 
     to log info about the configuration property that was changed.
*/

function onMenuItemConfigChange(p_sType, p_aArgs) {

var sPropertyName = p_aArgs[0][0],
        sPropertyValue = p_aArgs[0][1];

YAHOO.log(("Index: " + this.index + ", " +
               "Group Index: " + this.groupIndex + ", " +
               "Custom Event Type: " + p_sType + ", " +                  
               "\"" + sPropertyName + "\" Property Set To: \"" 
               + sPropertyValue + "\""), "info", "example12");

}

/*
     Instantiate a Menu:  The first argument passed to the 
     constructor is the id of the element in the page 
     representing the Menu; the second is an object literal 
     of configuration properties.
*/

var oMenu = new YAHOO.widget.Menu("basicmenu", { fixedcenter: true });

/*
     Subscribe to the Menu instance's "itemAdded" event in order to 
     subscribe to the "configChange" event handler of each MenuItem 
     instance's configuration object.
*/

oMenu.subscribe("itemAdded", function (p_sType, p_aArgs) {

var oMenuItem = p_aArgs[0];
   
    /*
         Subscribe to the "configChange" event handler of each MenuItem 
         instance's configuration object.
    */

oMenuItem.cfg.subscribe("configChanged", onMenuItemConfigChange);

});

/*
    Add items to the Menu instance by passing an array of strings 
    (each of which represents the "text" configuration property of a 
    YAHOO.widget.MenuItem instance) to the "addItems" method.
*/

oMenu.addItems([
    
        "Selected MenuItem",
        "Disabled MenuItem",
        "MenuItem With A URL",
        "Checked MenuItem"

]);

/*
    Since this Menu instance is built completely from script, call the 
    "render" method passing in the DOM element that it should be 
    appended to.
*/

oMenu.render("rendertarget");

/*
     Set a configuration property of each MenuItem to trigger the firing
     of its configuration object's "configChanged" event.
*/

oMenu.getItem(0).cfg.setProperty("selected", true);
oMenu.getItem(1).cfg.setProperty("disabled", true);
oMenu.getItem(2).cfg.setProperty("url", "http://www.yahoo.com");
oMenu.getItem(3).cfg.setProperty("checked", true);

YUI Library Examples: Menu Family: Setting Menu Configuration Properties At Runtime

Setting MenuItem configuration properties at runtime

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