bibliothek.gui.dock.action.actions
Class SimpleMenuAction

java.lang.Object
  bibliothek.gui.dock.action.actions.AbstractStandardDockAction
      bibliothek.gui.dock.action.actions.SimpleDockAction
          bibliothek.gui.dock.action.actions.SimpleMenuAction

All Implemented Interfaces:

SharingStandardDockAction, DockAction, MenuDockAction, StandardDockAction

Direct Known Subclasses:

CommonSimpleMenuAction, FlapDockDirection

public class SimpleMenuAction
extends SimpleDockAction
implements MenuDockAction

An action that provides a menu which contains other actions.

Author:

Benjamin Sigg

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class bibliothek.gui.dock.action.actions.AbstractStandardDockAction

listeners

Fields inherited from interface bibliothek.gui.dock.action.DockAction

BUTTON_CONTENT_FILTER

Constructor Summary

SimpleMenuAction()
Creates a new action.

SimpleMenuAction(boolean monitorDisabling)
Creates a new action, the method has to be set later.

SimpleMenuAction(DockActionSource menu)
Creates a new action.

Method Summary

<V> V	createView(ViewTarget<V> target, ActionViewConverter converter, Dockable dockable) Creates a view for this action, for the platform target and with help of converter.
DockActionSource	getMenu() Gets the menu of this action
DockActionSource	getMenu(Dockable dockable) Returns the menu that is represented by this action.
void	setMenu(DockActionSource menu) Sets a menu that will be displayed instead of this action.
boolean	trigger(Dockable dockable) Does the appropriate action that can be done respecting the current state of this action.

Methods inherited from class bibliothek.gui.dock.action.actions.SimpleDockAction

bound, getAccelerator, getDisabledIcon, getDockableRepresentation, getDockableRepresentation, getIcon, getIcon, getIcon, getIconContexts, getText, getText, getTooltip, getTooltipText, getTooltipText, isEnabled, isEnabled, setAccelerator, setDisabledIcon, setDockableRepresentation, setEnabled, setIcon, setIcon, setText, setTooltip, trigger, unbound

Methods inherited from class bibliothek.gui.dock.action.actions.AbstractStandardDockAction

addDockActionListener, bind, fireActionEnabledChanged, fireActionIconChanged, fireActionRepresentativeChanged, fireActionTextChanged, fireActionTooltipTextChanged, getBoundDockables, isBound, removeDockActionListener, unbind

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface bibliothek.gui.dock.action.StandardDockAction

addDockActionListener, getDockableRepresentation, getIcon, getIconContexts, getText, getTooltipText, isEnabled, removeDockActionListener

Methods inherited from interface bibliothek.gui.dock.action.DockAction

bind, unbind

Constructor Detail

SimpleMenuAction

public SimpleMenuAction()

Creates a new action. The menu has to be set later.

See Also:

setMenu(DockActionSource)

SimpleMenuAction

public SimpleMenuAction(boolean monitorDisabling)

Creates a new action, the method has to be set later.

Parameters:

monitorDisabling - whether the current DisablingStrategy will be monitored

SimpleMenuAction

public SimpleMenuAction(DockActionSource menu)

Creates a new action.

Parameters:

menu - the menu that is shown for this action

Method Detail

setMenu

public void setMenu(DockActionSource menu)

Sets a menu that will be displayed instead of this action. Note that this call might not have an immediate effect.

Parameters:

menu - the menu, may be null

getMenu

public DockActionSource getMenu(Dockable dockable)

Description copied from interface: MenuDockAction

Returns the menu that is represented by this action.

Specified by:

getMenu in interface MenuDockAction

Parameters:

dockable - the Dockable for which the menu is shown

Returns:

the items of the menu or null

getMenu

public DockActionSource getMenu()

Gets the menu of this action

Returns:

the menu

createView

public <V> V createView(ViewTarget<V> target,
                        ActionViewConverter converter,
                        Dockable dockable)

Description copied from interface: DockAction

Creates a view for this action, for the platform target and with help of converter. Clients might use their own code to create a new view, but the preferred way is to call ActionViewConverter.createView(ActionType, DockAction, ViewTarget, Dockable) with an ActionType that fits to this DockAction.

Specified by:

createView in interface DockAction

Type Parameters:

V - the type of view requested

Parameters:

target - The platform on which the view will be used

converter - A set of methods that can be used to create a view

dockable - The Dockable for which the view will be shown. Note that this action may not yet be bound to this action.

Returns:

a new view

trigger

public boolean trigger(Dockable dockable)

Description copied from interface: DockAction

Does the appropriate action that can be done respecting the current state of this action.

Specified by:

trigger in interface DockAction

Parameters:

dockable - the element for which this action is called

Returns:

true if this action could do anything, false if this action was not able to react in any way to the event.