MenuBar in osx to set About, Preferences, Quit

[Tai Hu]

I am totally agreed with you on this one. Unfortunately couple weeks ago, I spent days on searching solution for this issue. NSMenuFX is only one actually working.

Tai

> On Sep 2, 2015, at 11:02 AM, johns at msli.com wrote:
> 
> This method sends us down a hybrid-app route, which I am trying to get
> away from.  
> 
> Is there no pure javafx complete solution for OSX?
> 
> On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 10:33 -0400, Tai Hu wrote:
>> I used NSMenuFX, which is using eclipse swt. It works very well on Mac
>> OS 
>> 
>> 
>> Tai
>> 
>> On Wednesday, September 2, 2015, johns at msli.com <johns at msli.com>
>> wrote:
>>        Please respond with only methods that do NOT use swing, awt,
>>        or eawt, as
>>        I have not seen this published anywhere.
>> 
>>        On Wed, 2015-09-02 at 07:05 -0700, johns at msli.com wrote:
>>> What is the method for a pure javafx app to control the osx
>>        application
>>> menu bar (e.g. About, Preferences, Quit, etc)?
>>> 
>>> The menu bar area I am asking about can be seen in a native
>>        Mac OS
>>> applications menu under <AppName>:
>>> About <AppName>
>>> Preferences...
>>> Services
>>> Hide <AppName>
>>> Hide Others
>>> Show All
>>> Quit <AppName>
>>> 
>>> When I use the javapackager (aka javafxpackager ) to make a
>>        stand alone
>>> app on osx the title of this bar becomes my app name,
>>        however how do I
>>> control the other parts (e.g. About, Preferences, Quit,
>>        etc)?
>>> 
>>> My javafx application has a javafx MenuBar in each window
>>        (Stage) with
>>> the property useSystemMenuBar set to true, in order to show
>>        a
>>> more-native behavior, where the menu bar appears in the
>>        Apple menu bar
>>> at the top of the screen for the active window, but this
>>        does not give
>>> me control over the areas in question.
>>> 
>>> Please respond with only methods that do swing, awt, or
>>        eawt, as I have
>>> not seen this published anywhere.
>>> 
>>> 
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