Not directly related but I recently was looking at the Mac system menubar for javaFX applications noticing that they do not get an ‘About’ menu item in the Application menu.
I filed a bug that was just accepted today. JDK-8300180 : [macos] Default About menu item not shown for javaFX applications https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=JDK-8300180 <https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=JDK-8300180> It involves changes to some of the legacy Apple code (ApplicationDelegate.m) and changes to the javaFX application to initialize this code and also to use java.awt.Desktop. I was able to get javaFX applications an ‘About’ menu item by default, as all Mac applications including jpackage Swing ones do. Also with additional changes I was able to use java.awt.Desktop to get a custom aboutHandler for this menu item for applications that want to provide their own. I had tried doing this with just javaFX by simply getting a menubar and setting it to system, but this didn’t work. Possibly there is more to this that I should of done? I might look a little at what javaFX has for the Mac system menubar.
