Menu Bar

• The menu bar of an application based on the NetBeans Platform is created by the NetBeans Platform via the System Filesystem.

 

• Creating and Adding Menus and Menu Entries
• Creating an action class for a menu entry
• Adding a menu entry in the layer file
• Creating a submenu
• Inserting Separators
• Hiding Existing Menu Entries
• Simply use the layer tree
• Creating a Custom Menu Bar
• Important files –> XML Layer –> <this layer in context>
• Use the NetBeans APIs
• The Data Systems API
• Provides the MenuBar class, which is a subclass of JMenuBar, and has the ability to create its content from a DataFolder object.
• Create a DataFolder
• Access the System Filesystem via method getDefaultFileSystem()
• findFolder()