wxruby users - May 2004 - Sub-menus?

Hey guys,

I have been trying unsuccessfully to create a menu that holds
"sub-menus".
To clarify, I want something along the lines of when you click on a File 
menu, then see the "New" menu, which you can click on to open a new
layer of
menus.  Is this supported yet in WxRuby?

Robert

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Robert Carlin wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> I have been trying unsuccessfully to create a menu that holds 
> "sub-menus".  To clarify, I want something along the lines of
when you
> click on a File menu, then see the "New" menu, which you can
click on to
> open a new layer of menus.  Is this supported yet in WxRuby?
Yes, but not using plain Menu#append, and not (yet) through the wxPython 
method of append_menu. You have to create a MenuItem, and then use 
append_item to add it to the menu.

Here is a working fragment, extracted from the minimal.rb, and augmented:

#####
     menuFile = Menu.new
     helpMenu = Menu.new
     helpMenu.append(Minimal_About, "&About...\tF1", "Show
about dialog")

     submenu = Menu.new
     submenu.append(Minimal_Sub1, "nothing")
     submenu.append(Minimal_Sub2, "more nothing")
     submenuitem = MenuItem.new(helpMenu, Minimal_Submenu,
                     "Submenu", "Nice submenu!",
ITEM_NORMAL, submenu)
     helpMenu.append_item(submenuitem)

     menuFile.append(Minimal_Quit, "E&xit\tAlt-X", "Quit this
program")
     menuBar = MenuBar.new
     menuBar.append(menuFile, "&File")
     menuBar.append(helpMenu, "&Help")
     set_menu_bar(menuBar)
#####

Kevin