MenuItem Icon Alignment Problems

[rwhittak3]

I have a menu that has 2 items, a normal menu item, and a submenu (JMenu). Both the menu item and the submenu have icons. When I apply the Jide extensions, the icons fail to line up. Here is some sample code.

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import com.jidesoft.plaf.LookAndFeelFactory;
import javax.swing.*;

public class MenuItemIconAlignmentTest extends JFrame {
    public MenuItemIconAlignmentTest() {
        try {
            UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
            LookAndFeelFactory.installJideExtension();

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        JMenuBar bar = new JMenuBar();
        JMenu menu = new JMenu("Menu Bar");

        JMenuItem item = new JMenuItem("Menu Item");
        item.setIcon(new ImageIcon("green_circle.png"));

        JMenu submenu = new JMenu("Submenu");
        submenu.add(new JMenuItem("Submenu Item"));
        submenu.setIcon(new ImageIcon("green_circle.png"));

        menu.add(item);
        menu.add(submenu);
        bar.add(menu);

        setJMenuBar(bar);

        setSize(200,200);
        setVisible(true);
    }

    public static void main(String a[]) {
        new MenuItemIconAlignmentTest();
    }
}


When I run it, I get something that looks like this:



You can see that the submenu's icon offset to the right, butting up against the edge of the sidebar. Is there something I can do to line those icons up properly?

Thanks in advance for any help or advice!

Richard

[JIDE Support]

It's weird. I cannot reproduce the issue you mentioned. Since I don't have the img file, the img icon is the only place I changed from your test case.

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import com.jidesoft.plaf.LookAndFeelFactory;
import javax.swing.*;

public class MenuItemIconAlignmentTest extends JFrame {
    public MenuItemIconAlignmentTest() {
        try {
            UIManager.setLookAndFeel(UIManager.getSystemLookAndFeelClassName());
            LookAndFeelFactory.installJideExtension();

        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        JMenuBar bar = new JMenuBar();
        JMenu menu = new JMenu("Menu Bar");

        JMenuItem item = new JMenuItem("Menu Item");
        item.setIcon(ButtonsIconsFactory.getImageIcon(ButtonsIconsFactory.Buttons.RENAME));

        JMenu submenu = new JMenu("Submenu");
        submenu.add(new JMenuItem("Submenu Item"));
        submenu.setIcon(ButtonsIconsFactory.getImageIcon(ButtonsIconsFactory.Buttons.RENAME));

        menu.add(item);
        menu.add(submenu);
        bar.add(menu);

        setJMenuBar(bar);

        setSize(200,200);
        setVisible(true);
    }

    public static void main(String a[]) {
        new MenuItemIconAlignmentTest();
    }
}


Below is the screen shot.

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Thanks,

[rwhittak3]

Huh, that is weird. I didn't think the image would be the difference, but perhaps it is.

Anyways, if you could try it with my image, that would be great!

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Thank you for looking at this issue.

Richard

[rwhittak3]

Oh, also, I should mention that I'm running on Windows XP.

[JIDE Support]

I guess maybe the release did the trick. We checked the history and looks like one fix in 2.6.6 could have fixed the issue. Would you please give our latest 2.6.6 a try?

Thanks,

[rwhittak3]

The icons line up properly with the latest version. Thank you very much for looking into it!

[EikeB]

Hi,

it seems to me, that i have a similar problem with the Swing menu items.

I build a GUI with Netbeans with some JMenus and JMenuItems.

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(This is a screenshot how it looks like before executing any jide stuff)

In another FrameI use the ListDataIntelliHints, here is the code:

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intellihints = new ListDataIntelliHints(programNumber, ProgramManager.getProgramList("",""));
intellihints.setCaseSensitive(false);

(programNumber is a JTextfield)

After executing these two lines the appearance of all my JMenus change somehow. (in all Frames)
I used jide-oss-2.5.8:

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With upgrading to version 2.6.6:

menu2.jpg (10.39 KiB) Viewed 41643 times

Any suggestions how to solve this problem?

[JIDE Support]

Please try invoke LookAndFeelFactory.installJideExtension( LookAndFeelFactory.VSNET_STYLE_WITHOUT_MENU) explicitly before you invoke the two line of codes and see if it solves your issue.

Thanks,

[JIDE Support]

It would be great if we can have a test case from you regarding this issue. We don't expect to impact the icon display anyway even you install the entire look and feel.

Thanks,

[EikeB]

I just uploaded a small program that shows the "bug".

But adding the line:

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LookAndFeelFactory.installJideExtension( LookAndFeelFactory.VSNET_STYLE_WITHOUT_MENU);

has solved the problem.
Thanks

[JIDE Support]

Thanks for your attempt to share. However, we do need source code when we talk about test cases so that we can debug it. The code fraction that could demonstrate how you create the menu items would be good enough.

Thanks,

[EikeB]

Sry, thougt i uploaded the sourcecode... here is it

Its just the source, I couldnt upload the whole project, filesize was greater than 256k