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eternaln00b
eternaln00b

Reputation: 1053

Inserting a vertical separator between Icon and Text in JMenuItem

I'm trying to insert / display a vertical separator between the icon and the text of the JMenuItem components in my applications. I create a JMenuItem as follows (roughly):

JMenuItem cutMenuItem = new JMenuItem();
cutMenuItem.setName("cutMenuItem");
cutMenuItem.setRequestFocusEnabled(false);
cutMenuItem.setText("cut");
cutMenuItem.setAccelerator(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_X, KeyEvent.CTRL_MASK));

When I look at the items in the menu, they appear as follows:

Current look of menu items

Interestingly enough, I noticed that the default appearance of JMenu components matches the look that I want:

enter image description here

Naturally, changing all my JMenuItem components to JMenu components is not an acceptable solution. How can I get the JMenuItem components in my application have a vertical separator / border between the icon and the text?

Does this hinge on L&F? For the record, I am on a Windows 7 machine. I have tried setting the LayoutManager on the JMenuItem objects to BorderLayout:

cutMenuItem.setLayout(new BorderLayout(5,0));

Expecting to see a horizontal gap between the icon and text, but that seemed to make no difference.

EDIT: Here's a very fundamental SSCCE

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JMenu;
import javax.swing.JMenuBar;
import javax.swing.JMenuItem;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.KeyStroke;
import javax.swing.UIManager;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;

public class FakeApp {

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        JFrame frame = new JFrame();
        JMenuBar menuBar = new JMenuBar();
        JMenu menu = new JMenu("Menu");

        JMenuItem menuItem = new JMenuItem();
        menuItem.setName("cutMenuItem");
        menuItem.setRequestFocusEnabled(false);
        menuItem.setText("cut");
        menuItem.setAccelerator(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_X, KeyEvent.CTRL_MASK));
        menuItem.setIcon(UIManager.getIcon("OptionPane.errorIcon"));

        menu.add(menuItem);
        menuBar.add(menu);
        frame.getRootPane().setJMenuBar(menuBar);
        frame.add(new JPanel());
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(300, 300));
        frame.pack();
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }

}

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3155

Answers (1)

Guillaume Polet
Guillaume Polet

Reputation: 47608

If you simply set the L&F to the system L&F on Windows 7, you have the desired effect:

UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());

Or do you want this on all platforms/L&F ?

Upvotes: 3

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