jmenu

As you can see, it's ugly to have these kind of JMenuItem s. The width of the menu items is quite small. Here is the code: JMenu menuOne=new JMenu("MenuOne"); JMenu menuTwo=new JMenu("MenuTwo"); JMenu menuThree=new JMenu("MenuThree"); JMenu menuFour=new JMenu("MenuFour"); JMenuBar mbar=new JMenuBar(); //add the menu to menubar mbar.add(menuOne); JMenuItem OneItOne=new JMenuItem("1"); JMenuItem OneItTwo=new JMenuItem("2"); menuOne.add(OneItOne); menuOne.addSeparator(); menuOne.add(OneItTwo); mbar.add(menuTwo); mbar.add(menuThree); mbar.add(menuFour); setJMenuBar(mbar); Simply adding some blanks

I am attempting to make my first properly customised GUI, but I am having difficulty changing the image which has been painted for a component. Basically, for my exitButton (a JMenu) I overwrite the paint method, and then add a Mouse listener, but I am not sure how to repaint the image within the mouseListener interface in the Mouse entered method and again in the mouse exited method. Essentially I am looking for a way to repaint the image, but I am lost as to what I can do. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here is the relevant code snippet: exitBtn = new JMenu(){ @Override protected

How do I prevent a JMenuItem from closing the menu when the JMenuItem is clicked? The JMenuItem is enabled. So this is the scenario, I have 3 JMenuItems : JMenuItem: A, B, C ; C displays an integer X . A and B are used to increment or decrement X by a value of 1. If A or B is clicked, the default nature is that the menu will close upon click. I want to be able to repeatedly click A or B and have the menu remain up, and perform the associated 'action' upon each click. Thanks! First, using a menu to do this may be the wrong approach. JSpinner seems more appropriate. However, to do this with a

When attempting to click on an item in a submenu, it is natural to quickly draw your mouse across the menu items below it. Both Windows and Mac natively handle this by putting a small delay before the a menu is opened. Swing JMenus do not handle this, and the menu the mouse briefly hovers over would be opened before the mouse reaches the intended menu item. For example, in the image below, if I tried to select Item 3 , but in the process my mouse briefly slid across Menu 2 , the Menu 1 submenu would disappear before I got to it. Does anyone have any tips or suggestions for getting around this?

In my program, there is a JMenu with many accelerators, and a JTable that is editable. Problem is, when editing the JTable, the accelerator keys still get triggered. E.g., if I enter the letter 'n' into the jtable cell, the 'next' menu option fires as well. How would one go about making the jtable cell editor consume the keystrokes exclusively? import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JMenuBar; import javax.swing.JMenu; import javax.swing.JMenuItem; import javax.swing.JTable; import javax.swing.KeyStroke; import java.awt.event.KeyEvent; import java.awt.Toolkit; public class SampleClass{