Java Menu Question

rmartine · 01-26-2004, 02:39 PM

Hi all,

Is there any way to set a keyboard mnemonic for a MenuItem. I've seen dozens of examples on how to set them up using a JMenuItem.

Code:

myJmenuItem.setMnemonic(someKeyboardShortcut);

setMnemoic is inherited from AbstractButton which is part of javax.swing.
I'm hoping there is an equivalent way to do this just using java.awt.

Am I just missing something all together??

Thanks

coolman0stress · 01-26-2004, 02:49 PM

Why are you trying to do this just with awt?

rmartine · 01-26-2004, 03:27 PM

Well... I didn't know you could change the look and feel of a swing application until about 20 minutes ago.

<-- Idiot.

I'm writing something for the local school district and they thought the java look and feel was ugly. They wanted something that looked like the rest of their applications.

german · 02-01-2004, 08:48 PM

Use swing instead of AWT... If you look at the SwingUtilities class there is a method in there to set the system default look and feel (which on recent versions of windows is fairly believable, though not perfect... better than AWT anyway).

HTH

B.

german · 02-16-2004, 04:45 PM

Oh right and the way to do the keyboard shortcut is to have a method somewhere, which the event handlers for both the keyboard (KeyListener) and JMenuItem call. You should attach the KeyListener to something high up like a JPanel or even the JFrame. (ie NOT the JMenuItem).

B.

moeminhtun · 02-17-2004, 09:57 AM

Java default look and feel will changed in J2sdk1.5 which is still a beta version. I haven't tried it out though. I hope that will be the prettier one.

jfabiani · 02-17-2004, 10:05 AM

Take a look at www.jgoodies.com - they have a free l&f lib that is great. If you have some money they also have a complete lib that will help a lot with l&f issues....

John Fabiani

coolman0stress · 02-18-2004, 12:26 AM

Thanks for the heads up.