Context menu

Awe engine allows define context menu inside a grid, criterias or charts. With these menus, you can add functionality to your window.

Xml structure

The xml structure of context menus is the following:

<context-button id="[Id]" label="[label]" icon=[icon]">
  <context-button id="[Id]"  label="[label]" icon=[icon]>
    <button-action type="[action-type]" target="[target]" silent="[silent]" />
  </context-button>
    <context-button id="[Id]"  label="[label]" icon=[icon]>
      <button-action type="[action-type]" target="[target]" silent="[silent]" />
    </context-button>
    <context-separator/>
    <context-button id="[Id]"  label="[label]" icon=[icon]>
      <button-action type="[action-type]" target="[target]" silent="[silent]" />
      ... more button actions
    </context-button>
    <dependencies/>
    .. more context-button
    .. more context-separator
  </context-button>
  .. more context-button
  .. more context-separator
</context-button>

Context menu elements

Element	Use	Multiples instances	Description
context-button	Required	Yes	Context button element of the menu. Defines one element of the context menu
button-action	Required	Yes	Action of the context button. You can define a list of button actions
context-separator	Optional	Yes	Separator line of context button list
dependency	Optional	Yes	List of dependencies attached to the button

Context button attributes

Name	Type	Use	Description	Values
id	String	Required	Context button identifier
label	String	Required	Label of the context button.	Note: You can use i18n files (locales)
icon	String	Optional	Icon name of the context button	Note: You can check all iconsets at icons screen

Note: The context button has the same attributes as button element. You can see more info here

Button action attributes

Note: You can see all attributes of button-action here

Context separator attributes

Name	Type	Use	Description	Values
name	String	Optional	Context separator identifier

Examples

• Context menu inside a grid

<grid id="GrdSta" style="expand" initial-load="query" server-action="data" target-action="QryUniTst" max="30">
  <column label="PARAMETER_TEXT" name="Als" sort-field="Als" align="left" charlength="20" style="separator" />
  <group-header name="GrpHeaCol" label="PARAMETER_TEXT">
    <column label="PARAMETER_TEXT" name="Des" sort-field="Des" align="left" charlength="40" />
    <column label="PARAMETER_TEXT" name="Prg" sort-field="Prg" align="center" charlength="40" 
            component="progress" value="50" server-action="data" target-action="QryChkPrg" />
  </group-header>
  <context-button id="CtxGrdStaAdd" label="BUTTON_NEW" icon="plus-circle" >
    <button-action type="screen" target="matrix_test" />
    <dependency target-type="show" initial="true">
      <dependency-element id="GrdSta" column="Als" attribute="selectedRowValue" condition="!=" value="awemadora02" />
      <dependency-element id="GrdSta" event="select-row" />
    </dependency>
  </context-button>
  <context-button id="CtxGrdStaDel" label="BUTTON_DELETE" icon="trash">
    <button-action type="screen" target="matrix_test" />
    <dependency target-type="show" initial="true">
      <dependency-element id="GrdSta" column="Als" attribute="selectedRowValue" condition="==" value="awemadora02" />
      <dependency-element id="GrdSta" event="select-row" />
    </dependency>
  </context-button>
</grid>