June 2004
Beginner to intermediate
364 pages
7h 38m
English
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9.13. Creating Menu Separators
Problem
You want to separate menu items into groups using horizontal lines.
Solution
Create a new menu item that will act as a separator by setting its
style to SWT.SEPARATOR.
Discussion
Here’s an example that creates a menu separator and adds it to the File menu:
fileMenuSeparator = new MenuItem(fileMenu, SWT.SEPARATOR);
See Also
Recipe 9.7 on creating a menu system; Recipe 9.8 on creating text menu items; Recipe 9.9 on creating image menu items; Recipe 9.10 on creating radio menu items; Recipe 9.11 on creating menu item accelerators and mnemonics; Chapter 8 in Eclipse (O’Reilly).