Status of Application.setDefaultMenuBar

[Bruce Johnson]

I've filed a bug.  The internal review code is: 2396618

cheers,

Bruce

On Dec 5, 2012, at 5:21 AM, Anthony Petrov wrote:

> Hi Bruce,
> 
> So, did you file a bug at bugs.sun.com about this issue yet? If not, you should do so. There's really nothing wrong with filing a bug even if it exists already - it will just be closed as a duplicate.
> 
> A general rule: when in doubt - file a bug.
> 
> PS. The JIRA instance you're referring to is no longer used to track JDK issues on the Mac. It might happen that the bug was filed after the migration had been completed, and thus it didn't make it to the real bug database. This is our fault that the JIRA project hasn't been made read-only after the migration. Sorry about that.
> 
> --
> best regards,
> Anthony
> 
> On 12/4/2012 10:09 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
>> I can't readily release my application for Java 1.7 on the Mac without support for  Application.setDefaultMenuBar.  This seems pretty important for anyone that wants their application to look like a native Mac application and the lack of it is a big step backwards relative to Java 1.6.
>> Is there any hope that this will be supported in the "near future"?  Or do we need to go back to the crazy old days of creating an identical, hidden, menubar for every window?
>> Also, does anyone know if there is an actual bug filed for the lack of setDefaultMenuBar.  I can't find anything in bugs.sun.com, though there was an item in the old Jira system:  http://java.net/jira/browse/MACOSX_PORT-775.  I thought all those bugs had been migrated to bugs.sun.com.
>> Thanks for any info,
>> Bruce