Famo.us Menu - Click - Is there another way? - menu

Question

I have been going over the examples and demos of Famo.us, in particular the menus. In the examples such as taasky, timbre etc. the side menu is made up of MenuItemViews. Each MenuItemView comprises of a background, icon and title - each one a surface.
In order to make each menu item 'clickable' do I have to add an .click to each of the 3 surfaces that make up the MenuItemView and emit an event handler?
Or is there an easier way to make each menu item 'clickable'?
Thanks for your help in advance :)

Answer 1

Yes, what you want to do is pipe your surface events to the Views _eventOutput handler. This way the click event only needs to be defined on the view itself.
In this example there are two surfaces that each pipe all events to _eventOutput of view. When we click either surface, the views click event is triggered
Hope this helps!
var Engine = require('famous/core/Engine');
var Surface = require('famous/core/Surface');
var View = require('famous/core/View');
var context = Engine.createContext();
var view = new View();
var surface1 = new Surface({
size:[400,400],
properties:{
backgroundColor:'green'
}
});
surface1.pipe(view._eventOutput);
view.add(surface1);
var surface2 = new Surface({
size:[200,200],
properties:{
backgroundColor:'red'
}
});
surface2.pipe(view._eventOutput);
view.add(surface2);
view.on('click',function(evt){
console.log("View Clicked!");
})
context.add(view);