Supporting the Mac OS menubar in JavaFX

[Jim Graham]

I guess I was just referring to the various menus that an application 
may want to describe to the system on the various platforms, not 
everything to do with platform integration.  Aren't there just a small 
number of those?

Window-specific menubar (wherever it appears)
Application-general menubar (only appears on platforms that have 
separate system menubar that survives last window closing)
App dock icon (system tray?) context menu
(A couple more possible context menus?)

Where do we want the data to live where (as in, which object and what 
method) the app can specify other context menu items to install for its 
dock icon?  Does that decision affect where (object/method) we might 
want the various other (window-specific and app-general) main menus to 
be installed?

I don't think those are huge questions, but let's get a reasonably full 
list of all of the various menus (and possibly keyboard shortcut hooks?) 
that may need to be available on the various platforms and we will 
probably have a pretty decent confidence that we've come up with a good 
plan on where to locate the Mac-focused menubar APIs...

			...jim

On 12/12/11 2:57 PM, Jonathan Giles wrote:
>
>>
>>> The main information I'm after right now is the implications of the
>>> decisions we make now with regard to native Mac OS menubar support. From
>>> where I'm sitting, I can't see anything we will come to regret in 2.2
>>> and future releases. The same API can be used in a future Ubuntu
>>> scenario, and entirely different API will need to be developed for
>>> features such as system tray support and Windows 7 task list support. I
>>> don't get any feeling of concern about regretting this general
>>> approach....am I missing anything?
>>
>> If we don't have the discussion then all we have is a gut feel for
>> now. Most of these issues were just added to the discussion right
>> before you posted this message. The best practice would be to draw up
>> the design for all of these possibilities and then only implement the
>> MacOS menubar pieces of it. Failing that, are we really far enough
>> into the discussion to have that strong of an understanding?
>>
>
> We are definitely not far enough into the discussion to have a strong
> understanding of all native integration requirements - as you say all we
> have is gut feelings on this. That's why I ask if I'm missing anything -
> almost without doubt I am :-)
>
> However, from my perspective, if we want to dive more deeply into a
> fully-fledged native integration discussion, then it becomes a far wider
> discussion than what I can easily facilitate. It becomes a discussion
> that should bring in the scenegraph, toolkit and glass folks as well.
> The only reason I wanted to focus the discussion on native Mac OS
> menubar integration was because we've signed up to having it done for
> 2.1, and we have a very short time frame in which to implement it to
> make 2.1.
>
> I'm more than happy to step back and try to take in the bigger picture,
> if people are wanting to elaborate further.
>
> -- Jonathan