Menubar.labelfunction - MACROMEDIA FLASH 8-COMPONENTS LANGUAGE Reference

MenuBar.labelFunction

Availability
Flash Player 6 (6.0.79.0).
Edition
Flash MX Professional 2004.
Usage
menuBarInstance.labelFunction
Description
Property; a function that determines what to display in each menu's label text. The function
accepts the XML node associated with an item as a parameter and returns a string to be used
as label text. This property is passed to any menus created from the menu bar. The default
value is .
undefined
After the
dataProvider
Example
The following example uses a label function to build and return a custom label, such as New
(Control +N), from the node attributes.
Drag an instance of the MenuBar component onto the Stage, and enter the instance name
in the Property inspector. Add the following code to Frame 1 of the timeline:
my_mb
/**
Requires:
- MenuBar component on Stage (instance name: my_mb)
*/
var my_mb:mx.controls.MenuBar;
var my_menu:mx.controls.Menu = my_mb.addMenu("File");
my_menu.addMenuItem({label:"New", data:"Control+N",
instanceName:"newInstance"});
my_menu.addMenuItem({label:"Open", data:"Control+O",
instanceName:"openInstance"});
my_menu.addMenuItem({label:"Close", data:"Control+W",
instanceName:"closeInstance"});
//Format XML data provided for menu.
my_menu.labelFunction = function(node:XMLNode):String
var attrb:Object = node.attributes;
return (attrb.label + " (" + attrb.data + ")");
};
property is set, this property is read-only.
{
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