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2 replies on 1 page. Most recent reply: May 20, 2002 11:39 PM by Ben Trafford

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Ben Trafford

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Nickname: btrafford
Registered: May, 2002

JMenuItem.setText question.

Posted: May 20, 2002 6:50 PM

Okay...

In Windows, when you hit File menus, you get a drop-down list. The drop-down list contains things like New, some space, and then Ctrl+N.

I want to do the same thing in a Java GUI, where all the nice little Ctrl+FOOs line up.

One would think that this would do the trick:

JMenuItem.setText("New\t\tCtrl+N");

It doesn't. The escape characters are utterly ignored. Spaces won't work, because I'm not using a fixed width font.

Anybody have any idea how to nicely line up all my Ctrl+FOOs?

Any advice or help would be appreciated.

Matt Gerrans

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Nickname: matt
Registered: Feb, 2002

Re: JMenuItem.setText question.

Posted: May 20, 2002 10:18 PM

If I remember correctly, you use the item's (JMenu or JMenuItem) setMnemonic() method, to have the underlined letter that you can use in combination with opening the menu via shorcuts (like "Alt-F" then "X" to exit, for example). To get the application-wide shortcut, or accelerator (like Ctrl-S to save, for example), you use the setAccelerator().

Ben Trafford

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Nickname: btrafford
Registered: May, 2002

Re: JMenuItem.setText question.

Posted: May 20, 2002 11:39 PM

> If I remember correctly, you use the item's (JMenu or
> JMenuItem) setMnemonic() method, to have the
> underlined letter that you can use in combination
> with opening the menu via shorcuts (like "Alt-F" then
> "X" to exit, for example). To get the
> application-wide shortcut, or accelerator
> (like Ctrl-S to save, for example), you use the
> setAccelerator().

With a bit of research into the API docs, I figured it out, from your help. Many thanks!

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