Menu Designer

The Menu Designer allows you to easily add menus to your user interface. You can visually add, delete, and rearrange menu items directly in the Menu Designer without having to run the program to see the results.

You use the Menu Designer to:

Accessing the Menu Designer

The Menu Designer is hosted in the Content pane of the AppBrowser. To access the Meni Designer, double-click a menu component in the Component Tree. The Menu Designer has its own toolbar and recognizes keystrokes such as the navigation cursors and Insert and Delete keys.

Right-click in the Menu Designer to see the Menu Designer popup menu.

Menu Designer toolbar

The Menu Designer toolbar contains the following tools:
 
ToolAction
 
Inserts a placeholder for a new menu item above or to the left of the cursor.
 
Inserts a separator bar immediately above the currently selected menu item.
 
Creates a placeholder for a nested submenu and adds an arrow to the right of the selected menu item.
 
Deletes the selected menu item (and all its submenu items, if any).
 
Toggles the Enabled property of the selected menu item between enabled and disabled and dims it when it is disabled.
 
Makes the menu item checkable.

See also:
Getting Started with JBuilder: Designing menus