# popupmenu class

Provides a popup menu.

Inherits
object widget
Description
This widget can be used to display a popup menu.Technically, a popup menu consists of a list of menu items. You add items with insertItem(). An item is either a string or a widget. In addition, items can have an optional icon drawn on the very left side.
Functions

`$insertItem(<text or widget>,[icon id])`
Inserts menu items into a popup menu with optional icon and return the popup identifier.
`$insertWidget(<widget>)`
Inserts widget items int a popup menu and return the popup identifier. The widget is treats as a separator; this means that the item is not selectable and you can, for example, simply insert a label if you need a popup menu with a title.
`$insertHandle(<popupmenu object>,[icon])`
Inserts a submenu with optional icon into the popup menu.
`$exec([widget,x,y])`
If called without paramaters show the popup menu at the current pointer position. With the optional parameters show the popup menu at the coordinate x,y widget parameter relative
`$removeItem(<popup id>)`
Removes the menu item that has the identifier id.
`$removeItemAt(<index>)`
Removes the menu item at position index.
`$insertSeparator(<index>)`
Inserts a separator at position index. If the index is negative the separator becomes the last menu item.
`$activatedEvent()`
This function is called when a menu item and return the the item id. The default implementation emits the $activated() signal.
`$highligthtedEvent()`
This function is called when a menu item is highlighted and return the item id. The default implementation emits the $highlighted() signal.

Signals

`$activated()`
This signal is emitted by the default implementation of [classfnc]activatedEvent[/classfnc]().
`$highlighted()`

This signal is emitted by the default implementation of [classfnc]highlightedEvent[/classfnc]().
|-EXAMPLE POPUP MENU-|
|--Start: # First of all we create an array wich will be used to create random colors.
%Hex[]=$array(0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F)
class (ws,widget)
{
#In the constructor we create everything that belong to the single widget.
constructor
{
#Geometry of the widget and setting-up of layout
$$->$setGeometry(%X,%Y,100,100)
$$->%lay=$new(layout,$$)
#Here we generate a cicle to create our labels inside the widget.
%i=0
while (%i<10)
{
$$->%label=$new(label,$$)
$$->%label->$settext("Another class by N\&G")
#We set our foreground's coulor using the hex arrey in random way.
%color=%Hex[$rand(14)]%Hex[$rand(14)]%Hex[$rand(14)]%Hex[$rand(14)]%Hex[$rand(14)]%Hex[$rand(14)]
$$->%label->$setforegroundcolor(%color)
$$->%label->$setautoresize(1)
#We add the label to the widget's layout.
$$->%lay->$addwidget($$->%label,%i,0)
%i++;
}
#We make the popupmenu relative to this widget: this is merely demonstrative.
#because it creates 25 identical popups.
$$->%Popupmenu=$new(popupmenu,$$)
#we create the label widget wich will be used as popup's title
$$->%Popuptitle=$new(label)
$$->%Popuptitle->$settext(<B><U>"Windows Options"</B></U>)
$$->%Popuptitle->$setAlignment(Center)
#and we add it.
%A=$$->%Popuptitle
$$->%Popupmenu->$insertwidget(%A)
#Here we keep the various IDs in the arrays
%Tile[%I]=$$->%Popupmenu->$insertItem("Tile",118)
%Cascade[%I]=$$->%Popupmenu->$insertItem("Cascade",115)
$$->%Popupmenu->$insertSeparator(3)
%Closeactw[%I]=$$->%Popupmenu->$insertItem("Close Active Window",08)
%Closeallw[%I]=$$->%Popupmenu->$insertItem("Close All Window",58)
$$->$show()
privateimpl($$->%Popupmenu,activatedEvent)
{
%id=$0
%i = 0
#with this cicle we control wich of the items has been called comparing the id given back by the event with our arrays created before;
while (%i<20)
{
if (%id == %Tile[%i]) return %Workspace->$tile()
if (%id == %Cascade[%i]) return %Workspace->$cascade()
if (%id == %Closeactw[%i]) return %Workspace->$closeactivewindow()
if (%id == %Closeallw[%i]) return %Workspace->$closeallwindows()
%i ++
}
}
}
#we activate the popup pushing the right mouse button on the widget
mousepressevent
{
if ($0 == 1) $$->%Popupmenu->$exec()
}
}
%Workspace=$new(workspace)
%Workspace->$resize(640,480)
%I=0
%Cicle=1
while (%I<20)
{
%X=$rand(500)
%Y=$rand(480)
%Widget=$new(ws,%Workspace)
%I++
}
#Let's show! %Workspace->$show
|--End.

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