Question

I am new to Flex programming. I want to implement a custom toolstrip for an app. This tool strip will include a menu bar (or a customized equivalent) to display the common menu items such as File, Edit, etc as well as a search box. It should be flexible enough to include other menu items such as bookmarks, etc in the future. Can someone suggest the most appropriate control from which to inherit my components? I have been thinking about mx:Group, s:BorderContainer, mx:HBox, but haven’t been able to choose between them. And none of them seem espcially suited to my task as they merely specify layout of other objects. Is there any component which has direct support for such functionality. I have also thought about using mx:MenuBar but I don’t know if it will be flexible enough to add non-menu items like search box.

Answer 1

For speed and ease of use, use a MenuBar.

Maybe something like this:

//psuedo code
<HGroup> //draw your background for both components in the HGroup container
 <menuBar> //menubar has a transparent background
 <spacer width="100%">
 <searchBox>
</HGroup>