Desktop application top level menu hack - is there a better way?

[Jeremy <mo...@gmail.com>]

Goal: to have top level menu as per native application (e.g. Mac OSX menu or Windows main window menu).

I could not find a way (using pivot components) in tutorials, mail list, google.

Is there a better way to do this than by directly using Java AWT Frame and menus?  

e.g.

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.setProperty("apple.laf.useScreenMenuBar", "true");    

        DesktopApplicationContext.main(MyMainClass.class, args);
            
        java.awt.Frame[] activeframes = java.awt.Frame.getFrames();
        for (java.awt.Frame f : activeframes) {
    	if (f.isVisible()) {
                f.setMenuBar(createMenuBar());
            }        
        }
    }

    public static java.awt.MenuBar createMenuBar() {
        java.awt.MenuBar menuBar = new java.awt.MenuBar();
        menuBar.add(createFileMenu());
        return menuBar;
    }
     
    public static java.awt.Menu createFileMenu() {
        java.awt.Menu m = new java.awt.Menu("File");
        	
        MenuItem mi = new MenuItem( "Open", new MenuShortcut( KeyEvent.VK_O ));
        mi.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            @Override
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
                System.out.println("****** OPEN ******");    	
            }    		
        });

        m.add(mi);
            
        return m;
    }   

Re: Desktop application top level menu hack - is there a better way?

[Sandro Martini <sa...@gmail.com>]

Hi all,
if you need a standard Menu Bar, you can look at the following Tutorial,
live from here:
http://pivot.apache.org/tutorials/menu-bars.html

and there is a sample of it even inside our "Kitchen Sink" Demo, under the
Menus link.


But if you need a Top Menu outside the application (or better, a Menu for
the desktop, in OS X Style) we don't have something like this, sorry.
But you could file a JIRA for this (could be good for a future release, but
in this case the problem would be how to implement it in a multi-platform
way), and if you have some code/concept/prototype, attach there and tell to
us.

Otherwise you can try to put an Application in Full Screen mode, and use a
standard Menu Bar ... but you have to try and see what happens.

Bye,
Sandro

RE: Desktop application top level menu hack - is there a better way?

[Camilo Casadiego <Ca...@adv.co>]

you mean like this??

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Cordialmente,

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De: Jeremy [mailto:moore.jere@gmail.com]
Enviado el: Thursday, February 16, 2012 7:24 PM
Para: user@pivot.apache.org
Asunto: Desktop application top level menu hack - is there a better way?

Goal: to have top level menu as per native application (e.g. Mac OSX menu or Windows main window menu).

I could not find a way (using pivot components) in tutorials, mail list, google.

Is there a better way to do this than by directly using Java AWT Frame and menus?

e.g.

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        System.setProperty("apple.laf.useScreenMenuBar", "true");

        DesktopApplicationContext.main(MyMainClass.class, args);


        java.awt.Frame[] activeframes = java.awt.Frame.getFrames();
        for (java.awt.Frame f : activeframes) {
       if (f.isVisible()) {
                f.setMenuBar(createMenuBar());
            }
        }
    }

    public static java.awt.MenuBar createMenuBar() {
        java.awt.MenuBar menuBar = new java.awt.MenuBar();
        menuBar.add(createFileMenu());
        return menuBar;
    }


    public static java.awt.Menu createFileMenu() {
        java.awt.Menu m = new java.awt.Menu("File");


        MenuItem mi = new MenuItem( "Open", new MenuShortcut( KeyEvent.VK_O ));
        mi.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            @Override
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
                System.out.println("****** OPEN ******");
            }
        });

        m.add(mi);


        return m;
    }