showIf for toolStripMenuButton

[mfginc]

Should showIf work with toolStripMenuButtons? If not what is the reccomended way to not show an item based on security level?

In the example showcase I made the following change:

isc.ToolStripMenuButton.create({
ID: "menuButton",
title: "File",
menu: menu,
showIf:"return false"
});

It causes text to overlap on the menu strip.

Any help is appreciated.

[Isomorphic]

You're slightly better off using a conditional to avoid ever calling create(). There might also be a bug here, but we'd need the surrounding code to be able to tell.

[mfginc]

Thanks for the quick reply! Here is the code:

isc.Menu.create({
    ID: "menu",
    autoDraw: false,
    showShadow: true,
    shadowDepth: 10,
    data: [
        {title: "New", keyTitle: "Ctrl+N", icon: "icons/16/document_plain_new.png"},
        
{title: "Open", keyTitle: "Ctrl+O", icon: "icons/16/folder_out.png"},
        {isSeparator: true},
        {title: "Save", keyTitle: "Ctrl+S", icon: "icons/16/disk_blue.png"},
        {title: "Save As", icon: "icons/16/save_as.png"},
        {isSeparator: true},
        {title: "Recent Documents", icon: "icons/16/folder_document.png", submenu: [
            {title: "data.xml", checked: true},
            {title: "Component Guide.doc"},
            {title: "SmartClient.doc", checked: true},
            {title: "AJAX.doc"}
        ]},
        {isSeparator: true},
        {title: "Export as...", icon: "icons/16/export1.png", submenu: [
            {title: "XML"},
            {title: "CSV"},
            {title: "Plain text"}
        ]},
        {isSeparator: true},
        {title: "Print", enabled: false, keyTitle: "Ctrl+P", icon: "icons/16/printer3.png"}
    ]
});

isc.ToolStripMenuButton.create({
    ID: "menuButton",
    title: "File",   
    menu: menu,
    showIf:"return false"
});

isc.ToolStripButton.create({
    ID: "printButton",    
    icon: "other/printer.png",  
    title: "print"
    
});
isc.ToolStripButton.create({
    ID: "alignLeft",   
    icon: "[SKIN]/RichTextEditor/text_align_left.png",    
    actionType: "radio",
    radioGroup: "textAlign"
});
isc.ToolStripButton.create({
    ID: "alignRight",   
    icon: "[SKIN]/RichTextEditor/text_align_right.png", 
    actionType: "radio",
    radioGroup: "textAlign"
});
isc.ToolStripButton.create({
    ID: "alignCenter",   
    icon: "[SKIN]/RichTextEditor/text_align_center.png", 
    actionType: "radio",
    radioGroup: "textAlign"
});
isc.ToolStripButton.create({
    ID: "bold",    
    icon: "[SKIN]/RichTextEditor/text_bold.png",    
    actionType: "checkbox"
});
isc.ToolStripButton.create({
    ID: "italics",    
    icon: "[SKIN]/RichTextEditor/text_italic.png",
    actionType: "checkbox"
});
isc.ToolStripButton.create({
    ID: "underlined",    
    icon: "[SKIN]/RichTextEditor/text_underline.png", 
    actionType: "checkbox"
});

isc.DynamicForm.create({
    ID: "fontSelector",
    showResizeBar:true,
    width:100, minWidth:50,
    numCols:1,
    fields: [
        {name: "selectFont", showTitle: false, width:"*",
         valueMap: {
            "courier": "<span style='font-family:courier'>Courier</span>",
            "verdana": "<span style='font-family:verdana'>Verdana</span>",
            "times": "<span style='font-family:times'>Times</span>"
         }, defaultValue:"courier" }
    ]    
});

isc.DynamicForm.create({
    ID: "zoomSelector",
    width:100, minWidth:50,
    numCols:1,
    fields: [
        {name: "selectZoom", showTitle: false, width:"*",
         valueMap: ["50%", "75%", "100%", "150%", "200%", "Fit"],
         defaultValue:"100%" }
    ]
});

isc.ToolStrip.create({
    width: 450, height:24, 
    members: [menuButton, "separator", printButton, 
              "resizer", bold, italics, underlined, 
              "separator",
              alignLeft, alignRight, alignCenter,
              "separator",
              fontSelector, "resizer", zoomSelector]
});

Notice the MenuButton item has showIf.

[Isomorphic]

Thanks, we'll try this out, but just a note that because the best strategy is not to create the objects at all, this is going to be given a somewhat low priority - don't expect our usual immediate fixes.

[mfginc]

Understood.
Can you explain you other recommendation? I understand that I can skip the create of the menubutton based on my business logic. But, the toolstrip will complain that one of its members is missing?

[Isomorphic]

What you would do is use conditional logic to avoid giving the omitted button to the Toolstrip at all.