On Wed, 1 Jul 2026 19:44:43 GMT, Martin Fox <[email protected]> wrote:

>> This PR provides an API for replacing the application menu that JavaFX 
>> places in the system menu bar on macOS. The application menu is the one next 
>> to the Apple menu that is titled with the application's name and contains 
>> the Quit menu item. The JavaFX version of this menu has many limitations so 
>> this PR allows a developer to simply replace it outright.
>> 
>> Technically there’s no reason to restrict this to only one menu so the API 
>> allows the developer to specify an observable list of Menus known as the 
>> common system menus. Like the current application menu the common menus are 
>> present for all JavaFX windows and remain present even if all windows lose 
>> focus. Any per-window menus provided by a MenuBar with useSystemMenuBar set 
>> will appear alongside the common system menus.
>> 
>> In addition the PR provides some calls that allow a developer to implement 
>> the Hide <app name>, Hide Others, and Show All menu items that are expected 
>> in the application menu.
>> 
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>
> Martin Fox has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge 
> or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in 
> by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains eight additional commits since 
> the last revision:
> 
>  - Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into commonmenus
>  - Tweaked testing utility that searches NSApp.mainMenu, added tests
>  - Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into commonmenus
>  - New way of testing system menu bar, updated tests
>  - Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into commonmenus
>  - Quick fix for a javadoc issue.
>  - Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into commonmenus
>  - Specify a list of menus that are always present in the system menu bar

I cleaned up my manual test app and added it to this PR. Sorry it's so 
elaborate. Common menus have parentheses in their titles. There are no 
safeguards: you can shift the application menu around and even remove it.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jfx/pull/1881#issuecomment-4867319660

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