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Here's a tricky one (I think):

Suppose you want to enable/disable menuitems not only within your frame, but
also in scripts of components that reside in your frame, but who's code may
be in a DIFFERENT package.
For example, certain nodes in a tree may require diabling of certain
menuitems. It is this code that I would like to include in the frame's class
code; not in the frame code. Seems reasonable, right?

Solution as I had it in mind: use "Static" to ensure the last menustatus
(enabled/disabled)
create a container class (for instance: FileSaveContainer) with a STATIC
Action attribute. Create a menuitem with:
new container (): in the constructor. An Action atribute will be created
that is returned by a method: getAction(), for example.
This Action object will be used to create the menuitem: MenuItem FileSave =
MainMenu.Add(Action)

Up until here everything's working fine!

Now: when I try to disable the menu with the following code:
Actioncontainer myContainer = new Actioncontainer ();
myContainer.theAction.setEnabled(false);

NOTHING HAPPENS!!!!
It's as if Actions don't like to be static or something...
Anyone any idea?
Thanx in advance!

here's a full code example:

public class BitAction extends Object {
  public static Action sAction;
  public BitAction() {
    super();
  }
  public Action getAction() {
    return sAction;
  }
  protected void setAction(Action aAction) {
    sAction = aAction;
  }
  public void setEnabled(boolean aEnabled) {
    Action lAction = getAction();
    boolean before, after;

    before = sAction.isEnabled();
    getAction().setEnabled(aEnabled);
    after = sAction.isEnabled();
  }
}

Somewhere in the Frame:

      BitActionAccept anAction = new BitActionAccept();
      thisboolean = anAction.sAction.isEnabled(); -------->>>> This will
ALWAYS RETURN TRUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
      anAction.setEnabled(temp);
      temp = !temp;
      thisboolean = anAction.sAction.isEnabled();


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