MenuBar

Parent class: Widget

The MenuBar widget provides a hierarchical menu widget. The items can be standard menu items, or check items. Accelerator shortcuts can be assigned to menu items also. Each menu item has a unique string path that identifies it in the hierarchy. For example, "File/New" would identify the New item in the File menu. For deeper menus, simply extend the hierarchy: "Edit/Preferences/General Preferences/Set Color...". The following sample creates a minimal menubar for a text editor.
   MenuBar *mbar = new MenuBar;
   mbar->append("File/New", false, true, 'n', MOD_CTRL);
   mbar->append("File/Open", false, false, 'o', MOD_CTRL);
   mbar->append("File/Save", false, false, 's', MOD_CTRL);
   mbar->append("File/Save As", false, true);
   mbar->append("File/Quit");
   mbar->append("Edit/Cut", false, false, 'x', MOD_CTRL);
   mbar->append("Edit/Copy", false, false, 'c', MOD_CTRL);
   mbar->append("Edit/Paste", false, false, 'v', MOD_CTRL);
   mbar->append("Help/About", false, false, 'a', MOD_ALT);

To handle menu events, simply check the event's string in the MenuBar's Activated event handler.
   void SomeWindow::OnMenuBar1Activated( Event &pEvt ) {
     if (pEvt.getString() == "File/New") {
       // code to create a new file
     } else if (pEvt.getString() == "File/Open") {
       // code to open a file
     }
   }