Menu Commands

The Menu control also supports MVVM-style commanding, which requires no event handlers at all.

To use the Menu control with commands, set the Menu's command property to an object with two methods:

1. canExecuteCommand: This method takes an argument that represents a parameter and returns a Boolean value indicating whether the command can be executed in the current application state.
2. executeCommand: This method takes an argument that represents a parameter and executes the command.

The example below demonstrates an InputNumber that shows a tax value that can be edited directly or by using menu commands. Notice how some commands are automatically disabled depending on the current tax value.

HTML

 <label for="currentTax">
    Current Tax
  </label>
  <div id="currentTax"></div>
  <br>
  <label for="changeTax">
    Change Tax
  </label>
  <div id="changeTax">
    Tax Commands
    <div cmd-param=".50">Increment by 50%</div>
    <div cmd-param=".25">Increment by 25%</div>
    <div cmd-param=".05">Increment by 5%</div>
    <div class="wj-separator"></div>
    <div cmd-param="-.05">Decrement by 5%</div>
    <div cmd-param="-.25">Decrement by 25%</div>
    <div cmd-param="-.50">Decrement by 50%</div>
  </div>

Javascript

import * as input from '@grapecity/wijmo.input';
import * as wijmo from '@grapecity/wijmo';

function init() {
    // current tax value
    let currentTax = new input.InputNumber('#currentTax', {
        format: 'p2',
        min: 0,
        max: 1,
        step: 0.025,
        value: 0.0825
    });

    // create change tax menu
    let changeTax = createMenu('changeTax');

    // set command object for the tax menu
    changeTax.command = {
        // execute the command
        executeCommand: (arg) => {
            arg = wijmo.changeType(arg, wijmo.DataType.Number, null);
            if (wijmo.isNumber(arg)) {
                currentTax.value += arg;
            }
        },

        // check if a command can be executed
        canExecuteCommand: (arg) => {
            arg = wijmo.changeType(arg, wijmo.DataType.Number, null);
            if (wijmo.isNumber(arg)) {
                let val = currentTax.value + arg;
                return val >= 0 && val <= 1;
            }
            return false;
        }
    };

    function createMenu(elementId) {
        // get host element, header, items
        let host = document.getElementById(elementId), header = host.firstChild.textContent.trim(), items = host.querySelectorAll('div'), menuItems = [];

        for (let i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
            let item = items[i];
            menuItems.push({
                header: item.outerHTML,
                cmdParam: item.getAttribute('cmd-param')
            });
        }

        // clear host and instantiate menu
        host.innerHTML = '';
        let menu = new input.Menu(host, {
            header: header,
            displayMemberPath: 'header',
            commandParameterPath: 'cmdParam',
            itemsSource: menuItems,
        });

        // done, return menu
        return menu;
    }
}