Supporting the Mac OS menubar in JavaFX

[steve.x.northover at oracle.com]

Many toolkits have supported portabilitly between Mac and Windows (and 
other operating systems that put the menu bar in the window) by swapping 
the menu bar on stage focus in and out.  This is what SWT does.  
Recently, an app wide menu bar was added to support the Mac.

Steve

On 09/12/2011 6:34 PM, Tom Schindl wrote:
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>> Another place to specify a MenuBar would be on Stage, rather than (or in
>> addition to), Application. Having a MenuBar property on Stage would
>> allow for the MenuBar to change based on the currently focused Stage -
>> but I'm not certain this is desirable or even the expected behaviour of
>> Mac OS. Therefore, I'm thinking that this is not likely to happen unless
>> we hear otherwise.
> Well the menu changes definately based upon the focused top-level
> window. So I'm quite sure the MenuBar has to be specified on the Stage not?
>
> I'm wondering though how you'd like to support all the themeing stuff
> one is able to apply on menus/menuitems on OS-X.
>
> IIRC I recently read in a mail from Mike Swingler that one can implement
> arbitary Java Drawing post-Leopard but I'm not sure that matches the
> OS-X Menubar idea and all the fancy things one can do with JavaFX.
>
> Tom
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