Menu Bar under Mac OS

[Phase GmbH]

Hi,

this is most likely a Java question. I programmed a small IJ plugin by extending the PlugInFrame class. The plugin frame has a menu  bar. This is working fine under Windows and Linux but under Mac OS the menu bar of the plugin frame is not visible. What has to be done to get the menu bar  visible in the plugin frame?

Regards

Christian Kreutzfeldt

[Michael Schmid]

Hi Christian,

yes, a nasty problem - my usual workaround is using buttons at the  
top of the frame, each with a popup menu that comes up.

myMenuButton.addActionListener(this);
public void actionPerformed ...
     if (source == myMenuButton) {
          myPopupMenu.show(myMenuButton, 1, 1);;

A disadvantage of this method - the user interface is bit unusual:
A true menu pops up as soon as you press the mouse button. In my  
solution with the buttons, the menu pops up after one releases the  
mouse button (my attempts to fix this or work around it all failed).

Michael
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On 11 Feb 2009, at 10:35, Phase GmbH wrote:

> Hi,
>
> this is most likely a Java question. I programmed a small IJ plugin  
> by extending the PlugInFrame class. The plugin frame has a menu  
> bar. This is working fine under Windows and Linux but under Mac OS  
> the menu bar of the plugin frame is not visible. What has to be  
> done to get the menu bar  visible in the plugin frame?
>
> Regards
>
> Christian Kreutzfeldt

[manuelbarzi]

hi, Christian,

following the workaround of Micheal, you can also add a snippet to
detect the operating system, and then providing one solution or other
depending on that.

String lcOSName = System.getProperty("os.name").toLowerCase();
boolean MAC_OS_X = lcOSName.startsWith("mac os x");
if (MAC_OS_X) {
...
} else {
...
}

greetings.

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Michael Schmid
<[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Christian,
>
> yes, a nasty problem - my usual workaround is using buttons at the top of
> the frame, each with a popup menu that comes up.
>
> myMenuButton.addActionListener(this);
> public void actionPerformed ...
>    if (source == myMenuButton) {
>         myPopupMenu.show(myMenuButton, 1, 1);;
>
> A disadvantage of this method - the user interface is bit unusual:
> A true menu pops up as soon as you press the mouse button. In my solution
> with the buttons, the menu pops up after one releases the mouse button (my
> attempts to fix this or work around it all failed).
>
> Michael
> ________________________________________________________________
>
> On 11 Feb 2009, at 10:35, Phase GmbH wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> this is most likely a Java question. I programmed a small IJ plugin by
>> extending the PlugInFrame class. The plugin frame has a menu  bar. This is
>> working fine under Windows and Linux but under Mac OS the menu bar of the
>> plugin frame is not visible. What has to be done to get the menu bar
>>  visible in the plugin frame?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Christian Kreutzfeldt
>