User Guide

About menu item types (Flash Professional only) 889

The following example defines three check box menu items:

<menu>

<menuitem label="Apples" type="check" instanceName="buyApples"

selected="true" />

<menuitem label="Oranges" type="check" instanceName="buyOranges"

selected="false" />

<menuitem label="Bananas" type="check" instanceName="buyBananas"

selected="false" />

</menu>

You can use the instance names in ActionScript to access the menu items directly from the

menu itself, as in the following example:

myMenu.setMenuItemSelected(myMenu.buyapples, true);

myMenu.setMenuItemSelected(myMenu.buyoranges, false);

Radio button menu items

Menu items whose type attribute is set to radio can be grouped together so that only one of

the items can be selected at a time. Although a radio button menu item behaves similarly to a

RadioButton component, a radio button menu item appears visually without the border

surrounding the button. So an unselected radio button menu item looks like a Normal menu

item until selected.

You create a radio group by giving the menu items the same value for their

groupName

attribute, as in the following example:

<menu>

<menuitem label="Center" type="radio" groupName="alignment_group"

instanceName="center_item"/>

</menu>

NOTE

The selected attribute should be modified only with the setMenuItemSelected() method.

You can directly examine the

selected attribute, but it returns a string value of true or

false.