Item Eventing
Menu with Item Eventing
Z2UI5_CL_SMPC_APP_227
Controls
sap.ui.unified
UI5 1.84
The facts
- Repository
- abap2UI5/samples-controls
- Class
Z2UI5_CL_SMPC_APP_227- Source file
z2ui5_cl_smpc_app_227.clas.abap↗- Library
- sap.ui.unified
- UI5 entity
sap.ui.unified.Menu- Demo kit sample
sap.ui.unified.sample.MenuItemEventing- SAP's own sample
- running at sdk.openui5.org ↗
- Minimum UI5
- 1.84
- In the playground
- runs in the browser, with no system and nothing installed
Keywords: menu, sap.ui.unified, menuitemeventing, horizontallayout, button, menuitem, menutextfielditem
Controls it builds
- sap.m.Button
- sap.ui.core.mvc.View
- sap.ui.layout.HorizontalLayout
- sap.ui.unified.Menu
- sap.ui.unified.MenuItem
- sap.ui.unified.MenuTextFieldItem
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" @keywords menu sap.ui.unified menuitemeventing horizontallayout button menuitem menutextfielditem
" @summary Menu with Item Eventing
CLASS z2ui5_cl_smpc_app_227 DEFINITION PUBLIC.
PUBLIC SECTION.
INTERFACES z2ui5_if_app.
PROTECTED SECTION.
DATA client TYPE REF TO z2ui5_if_client.
METHODS view_display.
PRIVATE SECTION.
ENDCLASS.
CLASS z2ui5_cl_smpc_app_227 IMPLEMENTATION.
METHOD z2ui5_if_app~main.
me->client = client.
IF client->check_on_navigated( ).
view_display( ).
ENDIF.
ENDMETHOD.
METHOD view_display.
DATA(view) = z2ui5_cl_ui5_view_builder=>factory( ).
view->ele( n = `View` ns = `mvc`
)->a( n = `xmlns` v = `sap.m`
)->a( n = `xmlns:mvc` v = `sap.ui.core.mvc`
)->a( n = `xmlns:l` v = `sap.ui.layout`
)->a( n = `xmlns:u` v = `sap.ui.unified`
)->a( n = `class` v = `viewPadding`
)->ele( n = `HorizontalLayout` ns = `l`
)->ele( `Button`
)->a( n = `id` v = `openMenu`
)->a( n = `text` v = `Open Menu`
)->a( n = `ariaHasPopup` v = `Menu`
" the sample opens the Menu anchored to the button via oMenu.open( kbd, button, ... );
" sap.ui.unified.Menu has no openBy of its own; the frontend's openBy
" falls back to open( false, anchor, 'begin top', 'begin bottom', anchor )
" for exactly this control (pr/unified-menu-open-anchored, 2026-07-27) -
" the "no-op today" this comment claimed until 2026-08-23 is long gone
)->a( n = `press` v = client->follow_up_action( val = client->cs_event-control_by_id
t_arg = VALUE #( ( `theMenu` ) ( `openBy` ) ( `$event.oSource.sId` ) ) )
)->ele( `dependents`
)->ele( n = `Menu` ns = `u`
)->a( n = `id` v = `theMenu`
)->tag( n = `MenuItem` ns = `u`
)->a( n = `text` v = `My 1st Item`
)->a( n = `icon` v = `sap-icon://save`
" compose the toast on the frontend (1:1 with MessageToast.show("'" + item.getText() + "' pressed"))
)->a( n = `select` v = client->follow_up_action( val = client->cs_event-control_global
t_arg = VALUE #( ( `MESSAGE_TOAST` ) ( `show` ) ( `'{0}' pressed` ) ( `${$parameters>/item}.getText()` ) ) )
)->tag( n = `MenuItem` ns = `u`
)->a( n = `text` v = `My 2nd Item`
)->a( n = `select` v = client->follow_up_action( val = client->cs_event-control_global
t_arg = VALUE #( ( `MESSAGE_TOAST` ) ( `show` ) ( `'{0}' pressed` ) ( `${$parameters>/item}.getText()` ) ) )
)->ele( n = `MenuItem` ns = `u`
)->a( n = `text` v = `My 3rd Item`
)->ele( n = `Menu` ns = `u`
)->tag( n = `MenuItem` ns = `u`
)->a( n = `text` v = `1st Sub Item`
)->a( n = `select` v = client->follow_up_action( val = client->cs_event-control_global
t_arg = VALUE #( ( `MESSAGE_TOAST` ) ( `show` ) ( `'{0}' pressed` ) ( `${$parameters>/item}.getText()` ) ) )
)->tag( n = `MenuItem` ns = `u`
)->a( n = `text` v = `2nd Sub Item`
)->a( n = `select` v = client->follow_up_action( val = client->cs_event-control_global
t_arg = VALUE #( ( `MESSAGE_TOAST` ) ( `show` ) ( `'{0}' pressed` ) ( `${$parameters>/item}.getText()` ) ) )
)->tag( n = `MenuItem` ns = `u`
)->a( n = `text` v = `3rd Sub Item but inactive`
)->a( n = `enabled` v = `false`
)->end(
)->end(
)->tag( n = `MenuItem` ns = `u`
)->a( n = `text` v = `My 4th Item`
)->a( n = `startsSection` v = `true`
)->a( n = `select` v = client->follow_up_action( val = client->cs_event-control_global
t_arg = VALUE #( ( `MESSAGE_TOAST` ) ( `show` ) ( `'{0}' pressed` ) ( `${$parameters>/item}.getText()` ) ) )
)->tag( n = `MenuItem` ns = `u`
)->a( n = `text` v = `My 5th Item`
)->a( n = `select` v = client->follow_up_action( val = client->cs_event-control_global
t_arg = VALUE #( ( `MESSAGE_TOAST` ) ( `show` ) ( `'{0}' pressed` ) ( `${$parameters>/item}.getText()` ) ) )
)->tag( n = `MenuTextFieldItem` ns = `u`
)->a( n = `label` v = `Find`
)->a( n = `enabled` v = `true`
)->a( n = `startsSection` v = `true`
)->a( n = `icon` v = `sap-icon://filter`
" 1:1 with MessageToast.show("'" + item.getValue() + "' entered")
)->a( n = `select` v = client->follow_up_action( val = client->cs_event-control_global
t_arg = VALUE #( ( `MESSAGE_TOAST` ) ( `show` ) ( `'{0}' entered` ) ( `${$parameters>/item}.getValue()` ) ) )
)->end(
)->end(
)->end(
)->end( ).
client->view_display( view->stringify( ) ).
ENDMETHOD.
ENDCLASS.
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