[FLEX-25991] MobileApplication should have a viewMenuItems property that allows developers to supply default menu items

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Later
• Affects Version/s: Adobe Flex SDK Previous
• Component/s: Mobile: Menu
• Environment: Affected OS(s): All OS Platforms; Language Found: English
• Assignee: Adobe JIRA
• Reporter: Adobe JIRA
• Created: 19/Nov/10 10:20
• Updated: 10/May/11 13:46
• Resolved: 16/Dec/10 16:04

Description

ViewMenu uses the active view's viewMenuItems property to decide what items to populate in a view. I feel that MobileApplication should have a viewMenuItems property that serves as the default menu items when a View does not provide anything. This gives developers the option of create a global menu if there items are the same throughout the application.

Some benefits of this:

• Provides a mechanism for create a global application menu (which is common)
• Reduces developer code duplication
• If a global menu is used, the ViewMenuItems (which are UIComponents) don't need to be recreated, thus lowering the overhead time of view creation
• Will follow patterns introduced by ActionBar and ViewNavigator.

This is very simple to implement, but should provide a lot of value.

Workaround (if any):