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Re: Synth with Apple-style menu bar?


On May 24, 2005, at 5:17 PM, Werner Randelshofer wrote:

Dear Kevin,

I think that Apple's Aqua Look and Feel creates an AWT menu bar, when the
'apple.laf.useScreenMenuBar' property is set to true.

The Synth L&F does not read this property and always creates a menu bar
inside of a JFrame.

An easy solution might be, to directly use AWT menu bars instead of Swing
menu bars. This should work with any L&F on the Mac.


After some work I was able to get my app semi-working with AWT menu bars. It took a lot of hacking and the results are not very satisfactory. AWT menu bars do not support Actions, icons on the menu items, and several other things.

I don't believe that Aqua creates AWT menu bars because my previous interface had all of the Swing bells and whistles such as the icons on the menu bars. Really, for consistency, Apple should support using this property with the Synth interface. I'm stuck at the moment and I don't know which way to go with my application...

Thanks for the suggestion, though.

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