Mutliple JMenuBar

Hi,

Is this possible to implement on either JFrame or JApplet?
Having multiple JMenuBar (like toolbars of Microsoft Office 2003) wherein you could set images as a menu.

Thanks,
Cyril H.

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Originally Posted by chyrl

Is this possible to implement on either JFrame or JApplet?
Having multiple JMenuBar (like toolbars of Microsoft Office 2003) wherein you could set images as a menu.

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Does the API documentation mention the possibility of multiple menu bars or is it talking about the menu bar?

kind regards,

Jos

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Originally Posted by JosAH

Does the API documentation mention the possibility of multiple menu bars or is it talking about the menu bar?

kind regards,

Jos

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I'm not sure of the existence. But I have seen java programs will multiple menu bars (like the standard menu bar of MS Word 2003). But I don't how it was implemented.

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Originally Posted by chyrl

I'm not sure of the existence. But I have seen java programs will multiple menu bars (like the standard menu bar of MS Word 2003). But I don't how it was implemented.

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A JFrame (and others) implement one single menu bar as the API documentation states. You could try to add more menus to it that will fit on a single line; play and experiment with it and most important: read the API documentation.

kind regards,

Jos

You *can* add more than one JMenuBar to a parent JMenuBar after setting an appropriate layout -- possibly GridLayout(0, 1) -- and set the parent JMenuBar to a JFrame.

db

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Originally Posted by Darryl.Burke

You *can* add more than one JMenuBar to a parent JMenuBar after setting an appropriate layout -- possibly GridLayout(0, 1) -- and set the parent JMenuBar to a JFrame.

db

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You mean that JMenuBars can be childs of one JMenuBar? It does implement the MenuElement interface so it should be possible ... they're all located near the top of the JFrame though.

kind regards,

Jos

Maybe you are looking to use a JToolBar?

JToolBar (Java 2 Platform SE v1.4.2)

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Originally Posted by JosAH

You mean that JMenuBars can be childs of one JMenuBar?

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Code:

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import java.awt.GridLayout;
import javax.swing.*;

public class NestedMenuBar {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {

      @Override
      public void run() {
        new NestedMenuBar().makeUI();
      }
    });
  }

  public void makeUI() {
    JMenuBar outerBar = new JMenuBar();
    outerBar.setLayout(new GridLayout(0, 1));

    for (int i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
      JMenu menu = new JMenu("Menu " + i);
      menu.add(new JMenuItem("Item " + i));
      JMenuBar innerBar = new JMenuBar();
      innerBar.add(menu);
      outerBar.add(innerBar);
    }

    JFrame frame = new JFrame();
    frame.setJMenuBar(outerBar);

    frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    frame.setSize(400, 400);
    frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
    frame.setVisible(true);
  }
}

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db

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Originally Posted by StormyWaters

Maybe you are looking to use a JToolBar?

JToolBar (Java 2 Platform SE v1.4.2)

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Please don't post links to Java API for old versions that are already EOL.
JToolBar (Java Platform SE 6)

db

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Originally Posted by Darryl.Burke

Please don't post links to Java API for old versions that are already EOL.
JToolBar (Java Platform SE 6)

db

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Sorry my bad. I'm forced to program using 1.4 so that's where I go for my APIs lol.

Either solution of Darryl.Burke and StormyWaters solved this thread.

Thanks.
Cyril H.