Java System.setProperty (get JMenuBar on mac menu bar)

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Java System.setProperty (get JMenuBar on mac menu bar)

Hi,

I am currently building a Java application using Eclipse IDE. I have written GUI programs on OS X 10.4 before and managed to get the JMenuBar on the mac menu bar using

System.setProperty("apple.laf.useScreenMenuBar", "true");

But for some reason when using leopard the JMenuBar seems to disappear totally. When i don't use the above line it shows on the JFrame as it should do.

System.setProperty("com.apple.mrj.application.apple.menu.about.name", "AppName");

The above line doesn't work either with OS X 10.5

Anyone have any experience with this and had any success?

Thanks,

Sion

White MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.1), Core 2 Duo 2GHz, 2GB RAM, 250GB HDD

Posted on Jan 23, 2008 4:58 PM

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Bob Lang1

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Jan 24, 2008 6:43 AM in response to Sion Hughes

Hi Sion

Welcome to Apple Discussions.

You might be able to work around these problems using Jar Bundler, which takes a Jar file and converts it into a Mac OS X application. One of the options is to use the top line menu bar (instead of having it at the top of the frame).

Find Jar Bundler in /Developer/Applications/Java Tools

Bob

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Answer 2

Jetrii

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Jan 26, 2008 10:17 PM in response to Sion Hughes

I am having a similar issue with System.setProperty("apple.awt.brushMetalLook", "true"); I can't seem to get it to work. It appears that none of my settings are actually working. I'm putting it in the first line of main right before I initialize my JFrame.

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