I would rather file a bug :-)
Navin
-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Outwater [mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 10:31 AM
To: Jha, Navin
Cc: email@hidden
Subject: Re: RE: Can't see separators on Jmenu
Beats me :) You could work around this by substituting your own UI
implementation but it would be a total hack to do so. If that would
help you I can give you pointers on how to do it. Otherwise I would
file a bug with Apple on the issue.
Josh
On 9/13/06, Jha, Navin <email@hidden> wrote:
> Josh,
>
> This becomes a problem in popup menus when you want to separate menu
> items. Is there a fix in the works ?
>
> Thanks,
> Navin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: java-dev-bounces+njha=email@hidden
> [mailto:java-dev-bounces+njha=email@hidden] On Behalf Of
> Joshua Outwater
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 1:10 AM
> To: email@hidden
> 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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