PopupMenu on a JMenuItem

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wardleJW - 22 Jun 2005 00:19 GMT

Is it possible to hava a PopupMenu on a JMenuItem ?

I have been able to capture right click events and create the
PopupMenu, but I have the following problem: The Menu containing the
MenuItem dissappears. I need to keep the Menu and selected MenuItem in
view. The PopupMenu's items are going to be related to the selected
MenuItem.

thank's for help

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Larry Barowski - 22 Jun 2005 03:39 GMT

> Is it possible to hava a PopupMenu on a JMenuItem ?
>
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> view. The PopupMenu's items are going to be related to the selected
> MenuItem.

This will be look-and-feel dependent. You might get it to work
for one or more L&Fs, but not in general. I'm guessing it can't
work on a Mac with Mac L&F and the screen menu bar turned
on.

Why do you want to do this? This is non-standard gui behavior.
Maybe you can find another approach.

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Axel.Hallez - 22 Jun 2005 08:33 GMT

> Is it possible to hava a PopupMenu on a JMenuItem ?
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> thank's for help

I could be wrong, but I think that submenu's are what you need here. You
have to create the submenu as a JMenu and add it to the parent JMenu
just like any other menu item.
For an example see:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/menu.html

Hope this helps,
Axel Hallez

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