Re: Can't see separators on Jmenu

• Subject: Re: Can't see separators on Jmenu
• From: Doug Zwick <email@hidden>
• Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:17:33 -0600
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Greg Guerin 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.

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