hi,

i created a silverlight application in VS2010 and trying your demo menu.

i added the dll as reference + xmlns reference and pasted the demo code into my test project (the layout canvas).

when running the project the MainMenuItem do appear and get highlighted on hovering or clicking but no dropdown menu appears.

the funny thing is when doing the exact same test in expression blend 4 (creating a new project and using the demo code) everything works fine.

what am i doing wrong?

thanx + the right to left support is great

here's the code from VS2010:

<UserControl xmlns:toolkit="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation/toolkit" x:Class="CabManage.MainPage"

    xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation"

    xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml"

    xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/expression/blend/2008"

    xmlns:mc="http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006"

    xmlns:liquidMenu="clr-namespace:Liquid;assembly=Liquid.Menu"

    mc:Ignorable="d"

    d:DesignHeight="530" d:DesignWidth="970" FlowDirection="RightToLeft">

<Canvas x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">

        <liquidMenu:MainMenu x:Name="testMenu" ItemSelected="testMenu_ItemSelected">

            <liquidMenu:MainMenu.Items>

                <liquidMenu:MainMenuItem Text="Menu 1">

                    <liquidMenu:Menu>

                        <liquidMenu:MenuItem ID="item11" Icon="images/document.png" Text="Item 1" />

                        <liquidMenu:MenuDivider />

                        <liquidMenu:MenuItem ID="item12" Icon="images/save.png" Shortcut="Ctrl+S" Text="Item 2" />

                        <liquidMenu:MenuDivider />

                        <liquidMenu:MenuItem ID="item13" Text="Item 3" />

                    </liquidMenu:Menu>

                </liquidMenu:MainMenuItem>

                <liquidMenu:MainMenuItem Text="Menu 2">

                    <liquidMenu:Menu>

                        <liquidMenu:MenuItem ID="item21" Text="Item 1" />

                        <liquidMenu:MenuItem ID="item22" Text="Item 2" />

                        <liquidMenu:MenuItem ID="item23" Text="Item 3" />

                    </liquidMenu:Menu>

                </liquidMenu:MainMenuItem>

                <liquidMenu:MainMenuItem Text="Menu 3">

                    <liquidMenu:Menu>

                        <liquidMenu:MenuItem ID="item31" Text="Item 1" />

                        <liquidMenu:MenuItem ID="item32" Text="Item 2" />

                        <liquidMenu:MenuDivider />

                        <liquidMenu:MenuItem ID="item33" Text="Item 3" />

                    </liquidMenu:Menu>

                </liquidMenu:MainMenuItem>

            </liquidMenu:MainMenu.Items>

        </liquidMenu:MainMenu>

    </Canvas>

</UserControl>

well, seems like an inactive furom.

if you do read this, Dan, i made some more tests:

the same code works good when using the old assembly (Version 5.2.7) but not with the new (Version 5.3.2) - child menus just won't open.

its a silverlight 4 project on a WIN7 x64 using VS2010 with toolkit and RIA Services and every possible update installed (dont know if it's relevant).

any idea? someone?

i meant forum.

found the problem.

the menu control does not show the menu item on mouse click when using scroll viewer in the root visual of the application.

private void Application_Startup(object sender, StartupEventArgs e)

        {            

            ScrollViewer rootScrollViewer = new ScrollViewer();

            rootScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility = ScrollBarVisibility.Auto;

            rootScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility = ScrollBarVisibility.Auto;            

            this.RootVisual = rootScrollViewer;            

            rootScrollViewer.Content = new MainPage();

            //this.RootVisual = new MainPage();            

        }

when using the default app startup event the menu works well.

any idea how to fix that?

Hi,

This problem is due to the menu responding to a LostFocus event which forces the menu to close before it has been displayed.  The solution is to add IsTabStop="False" to both the MainMenu and ScrollViewer controls.

In the next version the MainMenu control will have IsTabStop="False" set as default.

Thanks!

thanks Dan, but didn't work out.

here's the code:

private void Application_Startup(object sender, StartupEventArgs e)

        {            

            ScrollViewer rootScrollViewer = new ScrollViewer();

            rootScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility = ScrollBarVisibility.Auto;

            rootScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility = ScrollBarVisibility.Auto;            

rootScrollViewer

            this.RootVisual = rootScrollViewer;            

            rootScrollViewer.Content = new MainPage();

            //this.RootVisual = new MainPage();            

        }

thanks Dan, but didn't work out.

here's the code:

private void Application_Startup(object sender, StartupEventArgs e)

        {            

            ScrollViewer rootScrollViewer = new ScrollViewer();

            rootScrollViewer.VerticalScrollBarVisibility = ScrollBarVisibility.Auto;

            rootScrollViewer.HorizontalScrollBarVisibility = ScrollBarVisibility.Auto;            

            rootScrollViewer.IsTabStop = false;

            this.RootVisual = rootScrollViewer;            

            rootScrollViewer.Content = new MainPage();

            //this.RootVisual = new MainPage();            

        }

<liquidMenu:MainMenu x:Name="MainMenuBar" ID="MainMenuBar" ItemSelected="MainMenuBar_ItemSelected" Margin="4,3,0,0" IsTabStop="False">

                        <liquidMenu:MainMenu.Items>

                            <liquidMenu:MainMenuItem Text="File" FontSize="14">

                                <liquidMenu:Menu Name="Menu1">

                                    <liquidMenu:MenuItem ID="HomeMenuItem" Text="sub" />

                                    <liquidMenu:MenuItem ID="ManagementSearchMenuItem" Text="sub1" />

                                    <liquidMenu:MenuItem ID="ManagementEditMenuItem" Text="sub2" />

                                </liquidMenu:Menu>

                            </liquidMenu:MainMenuItem>

                        </liquidMenu:MainMenu.Items>

                    </liquidMenu:MainMenu>

Hi,

This is strange.  I have taken your code from above and created a new VS2010 project and the menu seems to work fine (the test project is here).  Is there anything else you are doing to the menu?

Thanks!

Hey Dan,

yes. i have a MainMenu and a StackPanel Inside a Grid, one next to the other.

the StackPanel contains a HyperlinkButton and it causes the same problem.

Code:

<Grid x:Name="LayoutRoot" Background="White">

        <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">

            <StackPanel Orientation="Vertical">

                <Grid Name="HeaderPanel" Height="30" Background="AliceBlue">

                    <!--master page header-->

                    <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" HorizontalAlignment="Right" VerticalAlignment="Center" Margin="0,0,7,0">

                        <HyperlinkButton Name="LogoutButton" Content="Logout" Margin="0,2,2,2" Click="LogoutButton_Click" FontSize="13" Foreground="Blue" VerticalAlignment="Center" />

                        <sdk:Label Name="LoggedMessage" Content="Hello, " Margin="7,0,0,0" FontSize="13" />

                        <sdk:Label Name="LoggedUser" Margin="5,0,15,0" FontSize="13" />

                        <TextBlock Name="AppHeader" Text="App Name" FontSize="22" FontFamily="Tahoma" />

                        <Image Source="Images/sl_logo.png" Margin="7,0,0,0" />

                    </StackPanel>

                    <!--main menu bar-->

                    <liquidMenu:MainMenu x:Name="MainMenuBar" ID="MainMenuBar" ItemSelected="MainMenuBar_ItemSelected" Margin="4,3,0,0" IsTabStop="False">

                        <liquidMenu:MainMenu.Items>

                            <liquidMenu:MainMenuItem Text="File" FontSize="14" ShowChildMenuOnHover="True">

                                <liquidMenu:Menu Name="Menu1">

                                    <liquidMenu:MenuItem ID="HomeMenuItem" Text="Open" />

                                    <liquidMenu:MenuItem ID="ManagementSearchMenuItem" Text="Save" />

                                    <liquidMenu:MenuItem ID="ManagementEditMenuItem" Text="Exit" />

                                </liquidMenu:Menu>

                            </liquidMenu:MainMenuItem>

                        </liquidMenu:MainMenu.Items>

                    </liquidMenu:MainMenu>

                </Grid>

            </StackPanel>

            <!--content navigation frame-->

            <sdk:Frame Name="ContentFrame" Margin="0,5,0,0" Navigated="ContentFrame_Navigated" Source="/Views/Home.xaml" Canvas.ZIndex="-1">

                <sdk:Frame.UriMapper>

                    <sdk:UriMapper>

                        <sdk:UriMapping Uri="" MappedUri="/Views/Home.xaml"></sdk:UriMapping>

                    </sdk:UriMapper>

                </sdk:Frame.UriMapper>

            </sdk:Frame>

        </StackPanel>

    </Grid>

Hi,

I must be missing something, having pasted your code in to my test project the menu shows fine.  Are you able to package your code into a test project and email it to me and I will have another go here?  I'm sure theres something really obvious missing here but just cant find it!

Thanks!