Too much JMenu items in a JPopupMenu

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4l3x4ndr3@gmail.com - 26 May 2005 18:26 GMT

Hi,

I have got too much items in a JPopupMenu, so that the menu is to long
to fit in the screen. As a consequence, some items are not displayed.

I couldn't find any built-in method or parameter to cut the menu in 2
columns, as it is usually done.

I guess, it is not so complicated to do by myself. However, does
anybody knows an
existing solution our method.

Thanks a lot

alex

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Fred L. Kleinschmidt - 26 May 2005 21:43 GMT

> Hi,
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> alex

Having a menu that is too long to fit on the screen usually indicates a
design flaw. Multi-column menus are usually not the answer - cascading
menus are almost always a better choice. You should think about how to
group the items into sub-menus.

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Arnaud Berger - 27 May 2005 07:48 GMT

Hi,

You really should split your huge menu into logical sub-menus.

Regards,

Arnaud

> Hi,
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> alex

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4l3x4ndr3@gmail.com - 27 May 2005 12:44 GMT

You're right.
But it just can not be done that way since all items are of the same
kind. Actually the popupmenu gives all the results of a request on a
connected database. It would have no sense to split them into submenus.

Anyone else has a solution ?

Thanks anyway

alex

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Arnaud Berger - 27 May 2005 12:57 GMT

Hi,

Then, why wouldn't you use somethink like a JTable-->inside a
JScrollPane -->inside a JWindow
that you would pop up on demand ?

It seems to me that a popupMenu doesn't fit well for diplaying db results..

Regards,

Arnaud

> You're right.
> But it just can not be done that way since all items are of the same
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> alex

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John - 27 May 2005 14:42 GMT

>>You're right.
>>But it just can not be done that way since all items are of the same
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> Arnaud

Nice solution. I can't think of a better way of doing it.

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Fred L. Kleinschmidt - 27 May 2005 15:11 GMT

> You're right.
> But it just can not be done that way since all items are of the same
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> alex

Don't put them in a popup menu. Put them in a scrolled list in a dialog.

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John McGrath - 28 May 2005 11:12 GMT

> I couldn't find any built-in method or parameter to cut the menu in 2
> columns, as it is usually done.

All you should need to do is create an appropriate LayoutManager and set
the layout of the popup menu for the menu. I tried using a GridLayout
and it works fine, aside from the fact that GridLayout always lays its
components out by rows rather than columns.

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