Michael, I checked out eawt couple weeks ago when I search the solution for this issue. It seems that there is no updates since 2010 and I played with it for a little while. It seems not working with latest OS X and JavaFX 8. I cannot control the Mac menu bar by using the eawt.
Tai > On Sep 2, 2015, at 3:28 PM, Michael Hall <mik3h...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sep 2, 2015, at 9:05 AM, jo...@msli.com wrote: >> >> What is the method for a pure javafx app to control the osx application >> menu bar (e.g. About, Preferences, Quit, etc)? >> >> >> Please respond with only methods that do swing, awt, or eawt, as I have >> not seen this published anywhere. >> > > I’m not quite following this. Maybe there is another eawt, but when I see > that I think of the Apple API’s for this which are I believe are still > supported. > Is this what you mean? > These were used in the past on Apple jvm’s to provide this functionality to > java app’s and were I think open sourced and given to the openjdk project > when Apple turned over it’s java related. > Is this what you mean by eawt? And are you saying this is or is not > acceptable. > That support has nothing to do with javapackager as far as I know. > It was indicated to me at some point that support for these legacy Apple > API’s now informally belongs to the awt group. Also that they would probably > continue to be available in Java 9 as part of the Desktop module? If I > remember right. > > Michael Hall > > > > >