534014 - Commands on menuitems with submenus aren't triggered in the menu bar

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Mozilla Labs :: Jetpack Prototype, defect)

Description

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

On OS X only, for menus in the menu bar only, commands on menuitems with submenus are not triggered when ancestor menuitems are clicked.  For example, the following command function is never called when the "foo" and "bar" submenu items are clicked:

  jetpack.menu.add({
    label: "Broken on OS X :(",
    menu: new jetpack.Menu(["foo", "bar"]),
    command: function () console.log("I'm never called")
  });

As a workaround you can define a single function and attach it to "foo" and "bar" directly:

  function myCommand(menuitem) {
    console.log("Clicked " + menuitem.label);
  }
  jetpack.menu.add({
    label: "This Works",
    menu: new jetpack.Menu([
      { label: "foo", command: myCommand },
      { label: "bar", command: myCommand }
    ])
  });

Due to platform bug 534008.  When that's fixed, this one will be, too, but maybe we can come up with a workaround in the meantime.

Comment 1

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

Related is bug 526382.

Comment 2

[Daniel Buchner [:dbuc]]

We will be monitoring all these issues after the rebooted Jetpack code base is released in the first week of March to ensure their causes are not duplicated. Many of the bugs/issues with the prototype version of Jetpack will be made irrelevant given the structure of the new SDK.