Menubar

A Menu bar is automatically created by the Menu factory.

Overview

The Menu factory is responsible to create and manage the menu bar.

Getting the menu bar

It is possible to get the menu bar by one of the following methods:

• By using the MDIMenuFactory.getMenuBar() method
• By accessing the AbstractMDIMenuFactory.Mbar field
• By using the GUIApplication.getMenuBar() method

Adding menu actions in the plugins

If you want to add menus and Toolbar buttons in plugins, you need to make them available by the application.

There are several ways to do that:

• Either by adding a static menu
• Either by setting a bookmark for a static menu (bookmark are another way of defining static menus)
• Or by adding a dynamic menu