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JMenu ActionListener

I was wondering if can you test to see if a JMenu (not JMenuItem) has been clicked. I tried adding an ActionListener to it but it doesn't seem to recognize it. I just need it to preform an action when the JMenu button is pressed so that I can change…
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How to make a JMenu item do something when it's clicked

I'm making a GUI that has a Jmenu; it has the jmenu items that will be doing things when clicked. That is the problem. I've looked and looked, but I can't find out how to make it do something when clicked. Also, I am kind of a noob, so if you…
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Custom JMenuItems in Java

Would it be possible to create a custom JMenuItem that contains buttons? For example would it be possible to create a JMenuITem with an item similar to this: +----------------------------------------+ | JMenuItem [ Button | Button | Button ]…
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Swing: creating a checkbox or check symbol in menuItem of jMenu

I want to create a checkbox or check symbol in front of menuItem in a JMenu. For example, when we open a Notepad file and click on Format menu there is a checkbox in front of Word Wrap menuItem of the Format menu.
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JComboBox on a JPopupMenu

I'm trying to use a compound Swing component as part of a Menu. Everything works just fine, apart from one detail: The component contains JComboBoxes and whenever the user clicks on one of them to open its dropdown, the dropdown opens but the menu…
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Aligning JMenu on the right corner of JMenuBar in Java Swing

So if i have a JMenu & JMenuBar defined such that: jMenuBar1 = new javax.swing.JMenuBar(); jMenu1 = new javax.swing.JMenu(); jMenu1.setText("About"); jMenuBar1.add(jMenu1); // Finally setJMenuBar(jMenuBar1); and with this the Menu "About" is…
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How to make a JMenu have Button behaviour in a JMenuBar

I was trying to make a JMenu behave like a JButton but I'm having some problems and hopefully someone here can help! I've added a MenuListener to the JMenu item with this but I cant get the popup menu/focus to leave to enable me to properly click…
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JComboBox that is a Menu

I'm looking to create a JComboBox that acts as a menu. For example, when you drop it down, you can select items like you would in a JMenuBar. So it would take JMenus and JMenuItems as instead of Strings. Is this possible?
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Programmatically expand sub JMenuItems

I would like to programmatically expand a particular JMenuItem in a JPopup. For example in the code below import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import javax.swing.AbstractAction; import javax.swing.JButton; import javax.swing.JFrame; import…
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Java Swing - Add leniency when selecting items in submenus

When attempting to click on an item in a submenu, it is natural to quickly draw your mouse across the menu items below it. Both Windows and Mac natively handle this by putting a small delay before the a menu is opened. Swing JMenus do not handle…
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Why does JMenu not render correctly when using System L&F?

Bug Report This has been confirmed as a bug. You can track it here: https://bugs-stage.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8258934 Background There's no other code running besides what I've posted in the MCVE; there are no other JVMs active when running…
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JMenuItem unwanted tint

I am creating a program that uses both a JMenuBar and a JPopupMenu with a windows LaF (look and feel). Here is the simplified LaF code: UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName()); …
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Dynamically add menuitem in menu without closing the menu

I want to add JMenuItem without closing JMenu. A menu contains a JTextField, When I press enter in text field, it added a menu Item. My problem is the size of added menu item is too small. import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import…
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How to set an accelerator for a JMenu sub menu?

I have a user request to add an accelerator to a sub menu (JMenu) which would allow the user to press the short cut and have the corresponding sub menu "fold out", showing its contained menu items. I don't recall every having seen something like…
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Extending JMenu to give it a check box?

I'm planning on combining JMenu and JCheckBoxMenuItem so I can have: (1) a popup menu containing instances of this new component. (2) this new component would have a check box on the left as well as being able to expand to the right and show other…
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