[Question] How to preselect an arbitrary item?

[T1mL3arn]

When I create a menu it looks like this:

> foo
  bar
  bizz

Let say want a selection cursor to be on "bar":

  foo
> bar
  bizz

How can I do that?

[john32b]

There is a function in the MPage object called item_moveCursorTo(itemID) (which now that I think about it, it should be named item_focus(id))

you can get the current active menupage of an flxmenu with FlxMenu.mpActive, which returns the currently shown page object, so you need to make sure the page is open first.

so something like

var menu = new FlxMenu(...);
menu.createpage(....);
menu.open(); // <--- makes sure mpActive is populated, else it is null
menu.mpActive.item_moveCursorTo('bar'); // <-- focus the item with id `bar`

At one point I think I had the option to have a menuPage always focus a custom menuitem once it opens. But I removed it :-/, Also currently I don't have a running haxe toolset to check this, but this should be it I think.

Are you planning on using this when a menu page comes in and it needs to point to another element, or is it changing the focused item in real time?

[T1mL3arn]

when a menu page comes in and it needs to point to another element,

I guess this. In some subclass I need to slightly change the menu just after its initialization so it should have different menu item selected at the beginning.

[T1mL3arn]

Also want to note the need for this pre-selection appeared after seeing that disabled unselectable item was not automatically unset its selection.

[john32b]

I'm thinking of making a special markup verb for when creating items, something like
-|Options | link | @options | autofocus ?
the autofocus will make that focus whenever the page opens, or something like that
I'll push an update in a couple of days. 🐱

[john32b]

Have a look at this : #28

I chose to use the abbreviated AF since I already used the abbreviated U and D for unselectable and disabled