On Thu, 30 Jan 2025 14:42:33 GMT, Alexey Ivanov <aiva...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The bug says
>> 
>>> in case icon is defined for JCheckBoxMenuItem or
>>> JRadioButtonMenuItem this icon is used as a check/radio mark. themed
>>> background is used to show the selection.
>> 
>> so I guess it was done intentionally to not draw checkmark if icon is there, 
>> but I am not getting any menuitem with icon and radiobutton selection 
>> natively in windows11 to compare..anything in windows10?
>
>> The bug says
>> 
>> > in case icon is defined for JCheckBoxMenuItem or
>> > JRadioButtonMenuItem this icon is used as a check/radio mark. themed
>> > background is used to show the selection.
>> 
>> so I guess it was done intentionally to not draw checkmark if icon is there, 
>> but I am not getting any menuitem with icon and radiobutton selection 
>> natively in windows11 to compare..anything in windows10?
> 
> I think so. Vista and Windows 7 had a kind of separator in the menu between 
> text and icons.
> 
> ![Notepad - selected Word wrap in Windows 
> 7](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/81315ca3-5567-4cdf-8a2a-3bffd413b2b8)
>   
> This screenshot shows how menu looked like in Windows 7, the *Word Wrap* item 
> is selected.
> 
> I don't think Windows has ever supported both icons and bullets / check 
> marks… unless you drew menu items yourself.
> 
> The icons in menus were always displayed in that area. The right-click menu 
> on the desktop in Windows 10 is a good example; Windows 11 uses a completely 
> different style of menus on the desktop and in Explorer.
> 
> 
> I can't find any native Windows app which displayed both states. The closest 
> I found are Paint.NET and VirtualBox.
> 
> Paint.NET  
> ![Paint NET - selected menu 
> item](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1545d3a7-4354-4aac-90c9-92da0c98a713)
> 
> Here *Pixel Grid* is selected. It uses a selected background and a highlight 
> square around the icon. The *Pixels* item is also selected, but it has no 
> icon, it displays a check-mark (even though it should've been a bullet: only 
> one of _Pixels_, _Inches_, _Centimeters_ can be selected).
> 
> VirtualBox  
> ![VirtualBox - selected 
> Pause](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/777f45d8-5ac0-4bc6-ae88-77f43c063704)
> 
> In this case, the *Pause* item is selected. VirtualBox adds both a selected 
> background as well as a check-mark overlay to indicate the item is currently 
> selected.
> 
> Neither Paint.NET nor VirtualBox fully rely on Windows to render their menus, 
> either app uses owner-drawn menus or its own controls.

I found one in windows11 in Explorer which seems to use both icon and bullet 
checkmark and the present PR do the same

![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/910a5b48-98f5-4ddb-8761-fe2205970774)

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/23324#discussion_r1935744523

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