Menubar button with popup menu or dropdown in OOBasic

[JeJe]

A Menubar button with a popup menu is (I understand) possible with an xtoolbarcontroller but that can't be implemented with the OOBasic language.

Making a popup menu show when a menubar button is clicked is easy but a workaround is needed to:

- get it positioned
- so the menu shows when the button is pressed rather than clicked
- so a menu item can be selected with the mouse still held down

See attached demo for menu example.
A dropdown using a dialog could be accomplished in the same way.

(note only tested in OpenOffice)

'UPDATES
'14 01 20: added missed sub THANKS TO musikai

[musikai]

This is cool!!! Works also in LibreOffice. (This could tidy up my long list of Toolbar buttons in a nice way. Also the possibility of having separators is great!)

only when running

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SetToolbarItemRepeat

I get an error saying

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GetPropertyValueByName

isn't found

Good that you provided the link to hanya's findtoolbar in the code
viewtopic.php?f=20&t=56336
and there is the missing function:

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Function GetPropertyValueByName(aElements, sName) As Variant
  found = nothing
  for i = 0 to ubound(aElements) step 1
    if aElements(i).Name = sName then
      found = aElements(i).Value
    end if
  next
  GetPropertyValueByName = found
End Function

Is there a list of the different style possibilities by the PValue ?
I like the look of PValue=256 with the dropdown arrow but this doesn't seem to be compatible here. (pressing the button will show the menu but not pressing the arrow)

[JeJe]

Thanks... that's wierd I didn't get the error... added to document. I originally wrote it without using those functions and I may revert to that if I do a rewrite.

The itemstyle constants are here:

https://www.openoffice.org/api/docs/com ... Style.html

The dropdown arrow will show but it needs xtoolbarcontroller to implement that... which we can't do with basic.

The useful ones seem to be
- setting the menu item to show text or icon or both text and icon
- setting repeat, which you may want to use for a normal button as well

You can't set either of these without using a macro to do it in OO.