Sorting of menu items

[jiri.ov]

Hi,

I have question about sorting of Menu. Because I have menu with dynamic items, and I need to sort these menu items. I tried to use standard sortField and sortDirection attributes from ListGrid. It works somehow, but menu generate warning message into console:
WARN:Menu:menu:fields and completeFields are null and there is no DataSource
So I think it is not correct way, or there is bug.
You can see it on this example:

isc.Menu.create({
    ID: "menu",
    autoDraw: false,
    showShadow: true,
    shadowDepth: 10,
sortField: "title", sortDirection: "ascending",
    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.MenuButton.create({
    ID: "menuButton",
    title: "File",
    width: 100,
    menu: menu
});

I am using SmartClient Version: v9.0p_2014-01-01

Have you any idea how to do it correctly?

Thanks.

[Isomorphic]

You haven't mentioned your SmartClient version - but please try using initialSort rather than sortField/Direction.

[Isomorphic]

Sorry, you HAVE mentioned your SmartClient version :)

But please still try initialSort.

[jiri.ov]

I used this initial sort :

initialSort:[{property:"title", direction:"ascending"}]

in my first example. And it doesn't work, it has no influence to items order.

[Isomorphic]

Not reproducible against latest 9.0 - you can probably fix it by setting the default fields (see the doc for menu.fields) in your config, so they're available as required - but really you should retest with the latest from smartclient.com.

[jiri.ov]

Thanks for your fast answers. But I tested this code:

isc.Menu.create({
    ID: "menu",
    autoDraw: false,
    showShadow: true,
    shadowDepth: 10,
initialSort:[{property:"title", direction:"ascending"}],
    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"}
    ]
});

You can see result on image. Menu items are not sorted.
And I don't want to define default fields for menu, because menu already has some standard fields defined: isc.Menu.standardFields.

[Isomorphic]

Right - so, on later versions (including that week-old version you showed), switch back to using sortField - we'll investigate initialSort in this use case