Josh,
This becomes a problem in popup menus when you want to separate menu
items. Is there a fix in the works ?
Thanks,
Navin
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Joshua Outwater
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 1:10 AM
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Subject: Re: Can't see separators on Jmenu
I'm pretty sure the Aqua L&F doesn't currently provide a UI
implementation for menu separators that matches native Aqua. This would
be the reason for why they show up as empty space rather than a line
like you would expect. Using the "Screen Menu Bar" as suggested in
previous posts doesn't suffer from this problem because native separator
components are created.
Josh
On 9/12/06, Greg Guerin <email@hidden> wrote:
> David Leader wrote:
>
> >I've a number of apps I've written using AWT with menus with
> >separators that look fine on OSX.
>
> So do I, but AWT Menubar and Menu are different classes than Swing
> JMenubar and JMenu.
>
> Also, the top-of-screen menubar is not the same as the in-window
menubar.
> I just tested the screen JMenubar and it worked: Mac OS 10.4.7 ppc or
> i386, Java 1.4.2_09 or 1.5.0_06.
>
> However, when I reconfigure the same app to use an in-window JMenubar,
> separators appear only as gaps, not as lines, exactly as you've
described.
>
> The in-window JMenubar and JMenus are implemented using popup-menus
> (see Sun's source), for which separators are known to not work on Mac
> OS X, not even in 1.5.0_06.
>
> The remedy is to use an AWT Menubar, or use a Swing JMenubar in
> top-of-screen mode. The latter is controlled by setting
> "apple.laf.useScreenMenuBar" property to true, or the older
> "com.apple.macos.useScreenMenuBar". Both properties are honored in
> 1.4 or 1.5, and the resulting state is the OR of the two boolean
values.
>
>
> >Could it be something to do with the way I'm compiling? But, if so,
> >why should it work on Windows?
>
> Windows doesn't have the separator bug. Only Mac OS X does, and only
> on in-window Swing JMenubars.
>
> -- GG
>
>
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