Access Toolbar Items after they are created

[mcbeev]

Im having a little trouble trying to show a toolbar item with the .show method. I have created a toolbar called tb like so:



var tb = new Ext.Toolbar('toolbar', [{'Start', menu: {..more nested items...}}]);


later on in a mouseover handeler im trying to do something like:



function onMouseOver(e)
{
var item = tb.items.get(0);
item.show();
}


am I close with this ?

[evant]

From the documentation, there doesn't seem to be able to be a way to retrieve items from a toolbar. Your best bet would be to create references to them in your code:



var tb= new Ext.Toolbar('el');

var b = new Ext.Toolbar.Button({});
tb.add(b);
//now have a reference to b.

[tryanDLS]

You can access the toolbar.items collection - it's a MixedCollection object.

[mcbeev]

Thanx for the replies. I think the .get method is correct to get to the items collections and the item that I get from .get(0) is a vaild element, but the show method still doesnt seem to work. What would be the normal way to show the first item in a toolbar ? I thought about trying to use fireEvent('click') but couldnt get that to work either.

[tryanDLS]

Look at the toolbar html in Firebug before and after you call show. Is anything happening?