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I hope this article provides you with some interesting insights about Cocoa native bindings and how to use them to tweak the Mac OS menu bar items from JavaFX. It also sets the useSystemMenuBarProperty to true in order to put the menu bar at the very top of the screen instead of adding it to the application void start (Stage primaryStage ) throws Exception ) // Add the menu item as first element to the application menu menuBar.getMenus().get(0).getItems().add(0, about) // Update the menu bar tMenuBar(menuBar) The following example shows how to add a menu bar to a JavaFX application. With the resulting code, JavaFX applications are able to use the default Mac OS menu bar just like any native application. In this blog post, I describe how to access the application menu using Cocoa native bindings from Eclipse SWT to modify default application menu items and adding new custom items. This can be particularly annoying when menu items are labeled “Java” or contain the entire package name of your main class. Unfortunately, JavaFX does not provide any means to access this menu let alone adding new custom items to it. Native Mac OS applications also use the application menu for example for preferences, the about menu and other application related menu items.

This application menu is created for every application regardless of whether it uses an own menu bar or not and contains items to show, hide and quit the application. In contrast to the regular menu of a JavaFX application, this menu bar always contains the Apple menu and something that is called application menu. On OS X, the application’s menu bar is usually detached from the application’s main window and shown at the very top of the desktop instead. This is usually not a big problem, but it can be rather annoying in certain cases. As the compiled code is supposed to run on all supported operating systems, JavaFX does not support all unique operating system specific UI elements. This platform independence, however, usually comes at a price. JavaFX provides a simple means to create platform independent applications with a graphical UI.

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