In Flex 3, the MenuBar component does not support the itemClick event for
top-level menu items that do not have submenus.  The Language Reference
defines the itemClick event as "Dispatched when the user selects an item in
a pop-up submenu."

Is there a way to access the top-level menu items?

 Here's a sample code that illustrates.  This code is a modification from
Adobe(R) Flex™ 3 Language Reference on "MenuBar", where Menu3 is a top-level
menu item that does not have any submenu.

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!-- Simple example to demonstrate the MenuBar control. -->
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
creationComplete="initCollections();" >

    <mx:Script>
        <![CDATA[

            import mx.events.MenuEvent;
            import mx.controls.Alert;
            import mx.collections.*;

            [Bindable]
            public var menuBarCollection:XMLListCollection;

            private var menubarXML:XMLList =
                <>
                    <menuitem label="Menu1" data="1">
                        <menuitem label="MenuItem 1-A" data="1A"/>
                        <menuitem label="MenuItem 1-B" data="1B"/>
                    </menuitem>
                    <menuitem label="Menu2" data="2">
                        <menuitem label="MenuItem 2-A" type="check"
data="2A"/>
                        <menuitem type="separator"/>
                        <menuitem label="MenuItem 2-B" >
                            <menuitem label="SubMenuItem 3-A" type="radio"
                                groupName="one" data="3A"/>
                            <menuitem label="SubMenuItem 3-B" type="radio"
                                groupName="one" data="3B"/>
                        </menuitem>
                    </menuitem>
                    <menuitem label="Menu3" data="3">
                    </menuitem>
                </>;

            // Event handler to initialize the MenuBar control.
            private function initCollections():void {
                menuBarCollection = new XMLListCollection(menubarXML);
            }

            // Event handler for the MenuBar control's itemClick event.
            private function menuHandler(event:MenuEvent):void  {
                    Alert.show("Label: " + event.item.@label + "\n" +
                        "Data: " + event.item.@data, "Clicked menu item");
            }
         ]]>
    </mx:Script>

    <mx:Panel title="MenuBar Control Example" height="75%" width="75%"
        paddingTop="10" paddingLeft="10">

        <mx:Label width="100%" color="blue"
           text="Select a menu item."/>

        <mx:MenuBar labelField="@label" itemClick="menuHandler(event);"
            dataProvider="{menuBarCollection}" />

    </mx:Panel>
</mx:Application>

Rene ---
The MenuBar parent is not considered an item, but you can add an event
handler to it with a couple of small changes to your sample code.

1. Add an initialization call for the application's creationComplete
event

2. The Script's initialization call, among other things, add a mouse
click listener to a MenuBar:

private function initListeners(): void {
  this.menuBar1.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,
this.menuBarHandler);

3. Also in the Script's menu bar handler, check to see how many items
(children) it has, and branch accordingly:

private function menuBarHandler(event:MouseEvent): void {
  if (this.menuBar1.menuBarItems.length > 0) {
    // redirect the event to the item handler, etc.
  }
  else {
    // stand-alone menu bar processing
  }

You may also want to remove the menu bar listener when menu items are
added to it, eliminating that call and its associated overhead. The
menu item listener then takes over.

chuckb

On Dec 22, 3:50 pm, "Rene Rodriguez" <gr8jedimas...@gmail.com> wrote: