Introduction

Menuitem is a sub-tag of menupopup and represents one entry in a menu-system or in a menulist (combobox).

Properties

Property	Fires Events	Possible Values	Notes
acceltext (String)	No		Text that appears beside the menu label to indicate the shortcut key.
accesskey (String)	No		Character that is used as a shortcut key. This should be one of the characters that appears in the label
command (String)	No		"controller.method()" format
image (String)	No		URL relative to XUL file
label (String)	No
disabled (bool)	No
selected (bool)	Yes		Only has meaning if the menuitem is of type checkbox. Fired when a checkbox type on user selection.
type (String)	No	"checkbox" or empty	Only supported with SWT at this time

Methods

doClick() - Programmatically initiate a click. This should really never be done and any seeming need to do so should be considered a failure of architecture.

Sample Usage

<menulist>
  <menupopup>
    <menuitem label="Value 1" />
    <menuitem label="Value 2" />
  </menupopup>
</menulist>

<menu label="Actions">
  <menupopup>
    <menuitem id="process-run" acceltext="F9" accesskey="f9" label="Run" command="handler.run()" />
    <menuitem id="process-stop" acceltext="F10" accesskey="f10" label="Stop" command="handler.stop()" />
  </menupopup>
</menu>