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Create Menu Bar in SWT
Posted on: October 3, 2008 By Deepak Kumar

In SWT, the classes Menu and MenuItem of package org.eclipse.swt.widgets is allowed to create a menu bar. The method setMenu() sets the pull down menu.

Create Menu Bar in SWT

This section illustrates you how to create a menu bar.

In SWT, the classes Menu and MenuItem of package org.eclipse.swt.widgets is allowed to create a menu bar. The method setMenu() sets the pull down menu. The SWT.SEPERATOR separates the items of the menu. To perform an action on exitItem, the MenuItemListener class is called.

Following code close the shell on clicking the exit item:

if (((MenuItem) event.widget).getText().equals("Exit")) {

  shell.close();

       }

Here is the code of MenuExample.java

import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;

import org.eclipse.swt.events.*;

import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.*;

      

public class MenuExample {

  Display display;

  Shell shell;

  Menu menu, fileMenu, editMenu,
      viewMenu;

      

  public MenuExample() {

  display = new Display();

  shell = new Shell(display);

  shell.setText("Menu Example");

  shell.setSize(300, 200);

      

  menu = new Menu(shell, SWT.BAR);

  MenuItem fileItem = new MenuItem(menu, SWT.CASCADE);

  fileItem.setText("File");

  MenuItem editItem = new MenuItem(menu, SWT.CASCADE);

  editItem.setText("Edit");

  MenuItem viewItem = new MenuItem(menu, SWT.CASCADE);

  viewItem.setText("View");

  MenuItem helpItem = new MenuItem(menu, SWT.CASCADE);

  helpItem.setText("Help");

      

  Menu fileMenu = new Menu(menu);

  fileItem.setMenu(fileMenu);

  MenuItem newItem = new MenuItem(fileMenu, SWT.NONE);

  newItem.setText("New");

  MenuItem openItem = new MenuItem(fileMenu, SWT.NONE);

  openItem.setText("Open...");

  MenuItem saveItem = new MenuItem(fileMenu, SWT.NONE);

  saveItem.setText("Save");

  MenuItem saveAsItem = new MenuItem(fileMenu, SWT.NONE);

  saveAsItem.setText("Save As...");

  new MenuItem(fileMenu, SWT.SEPARATOR);

  MenuItem pageSetupItem = new MenuItem(fileMenu, SWT.NONE);

  pageSetupItem.setText("Page Setup...");

  MenuItem printItem = new MenuItem(fileMenu, SWT.NONE);

  printItem.setText("Print...");

  new MenuItem(fileMenu, SWT.SEPARATOR);

  MenuItem exitItem = new MenuItem(fileMenu, SWT.NONE);

  exitItem.setText("Exit");

      

  Menu editMenu = new Menu(menu);

  editItem.setMenu(editMenu);

  MenuItem cutItem = new MenuItem(editMenu, SWT.NONE);

  cutItem.setText("Cut");

  MenuItem pasteItem = new MenuItem(editMenu, SWT.NONE);

  pasteItem.setText("Paste");

      

  Menu viewMenu = new Menu(menu);

  viewItem.setMenu(viewMenu);

  MenuItem toolItem = new MenuItem(viewMenu, SWT.NONE);

  toolItem.setText("ToolBars");

  MenuItem fontItem = new MenuItem(viewMenu, SWT.NONE);

  fontItem.setText("Font");

      

  exitItem.addSelectionListener(new MenuItemListener());

  

  shell.setMenuBar(menu);

  shell.open();

  while (!shell.isDisposed()) {

  if (!display.readAndDispatch())

  display.sleep();

  }

 }

  class MenuItemListener extends SelectionAdapter {

  public void widgetSelected(SelectionEvent event) {

  if (((MenuItem) event.widget).getText().equals("Exit")) {

  shell.close();

  }

 }

  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {

  MenuExample example = new MenuExample();

  }

}

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