[FLEX-13787] menuBar and Tree are inconsistent in data behavior

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK Previous
• Component/s: mx: Menu Bar
• Environment: Affected OS(s): All OS Platforms; Affected OS(s): All OS Platforms; Browser: Firefox 2.x; Language Found: English
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Adobe JIRA
• Created: 16/Jan/08 12:01
• Updated: 10/May/11 16:28

Description

Steps to reproduce:
1. Please run attached XMLTag.mxml
2. select item from MenuBar control - text area does not update
3. select item from Tree control - text area does update

Actual Results:

The Tree and MenuBar, given the same tree-structured xml, should behave the same way, where you can refer to the selectedItem . Instead the syntax only permits selectedIndex on the menuBar - which is pretty dysfunctional (only refers to one level of the tree structure). And, though I've used the same data binding between menubar & text area, as with tree & text area - selecting an item on the tree updates the text area. Selecting an item on the menubar does not.

Expected Results:

These two controls should behave the same way. Programming the menuBar is mystifying...

The reason I was working on this example (an extension from Marco Casario's book Flex Solutions) was because I tried to program a template component using a menuBar, and I was having grave difficulty figuring out the listeners...

Workaround (if any):

Still working on that one...