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Thread: Joining two menus into one?

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    Default Joining two menus into one?

    I have a situation where a large part of my Swing Application menu wants to be generated automatically by an Xtext DSL (Domain Specific Language). However, not all of it.

    I'm pretty sure that it will be straightforward for me to have the code generation create an independent class with those menu entries. However I would like to join that with the rest of the menu that I will just be maintaining by hand as it won't be changing very often.

    Anyone ever done this that can recommend a good approach?

    Thanks,

    DL


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    Default Re: Joining two menus into one?

    If I understand your question, to dynamically add elements on the fly to a JMenu you can add a MenuListener to the JMenu. This will allow you to add/remove elements when the menu is selected/deselected.

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    Default Re: Joining two menus into one?

    Quote Originally Posted by copeg View Post
    If I understand your question, to dynamically add elements on the fly to a JMenu you can add a MenuListener to the JMenu. This will allow you to add/remove elements when the menu is selected/deselected.
    Well, I don't really need to do it dynamically, but that could work. Here's an example of how I'm currently doing it:

    		JMenu mnPots = new JMenu("Pots");
    		menuBar.add(mnPots);
     
    		final JMenuItem mntmPot0 = new JMenuItem("Pot 0");
    		mntmPot0.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
    			public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    				SpinCADBlock pcB = new Pot0CADBlock(50, 100);
    				dropBlock(panel, pcB);
    			}
    		});
    		mnPots.add(mntmPot0);

    So I guess I already am adding them "on the fly", although this code is just in the frame initialization code. Thanks for the answer!

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