Thanks, that worked. I wanted it to be a Module specific menu since the
users can disable the module and I didn't want the menu to display if the
module was disabled. I just put the XML in the Modules layer.xml file and
it worked fine.
On Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 1:10 PM Charles Rivenbark <rivenba...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Thanks, that worked. I wanted it to be a Module specific menu since the
> users can disable n't want the menu to display if the module was disabled.
> I just put the XML in the Modules layer.xml file and it worked fine.
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 11:04 AM Eirik Bakke <eba...@ultorg.com> wrote:
>
>> You can do do something like this from your branding module's layer.xml
>> file:
>>
>>
>>
>> <filesystem>
>>
>> <folder name="Menu">
>>
>> <folder name="Admin">
>>
>> <attr name="position" intvalue="205"/>
>>
>> </folder>
>>
>> </folder>
>>
>> </filesystem>
>>
>>
>>
>> You can also expand the layer.xml file from within NetBeans and see "this
>> layer in context", then right-click an existing menu item and click Go to
>> Declaration to see the position of the other menus items.
>>
>>
>>
>> -- Eirik
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Charles Rivenbark <rivenba...@gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* Monday, January 8, 2024 4:17 PM
>> *To:* users@netbeans.apache.org
>> *Subject:* NetBeans Platform Application - Set Position of Menu Within
>> the Menu Bar
>>
>>
>>
>> I am using NetBeans IDE 20 and have a Maven project that has numerous
>> TopComponent windows. I want to set the position on the menu bar where the
>> module menu appears. By default the Admin menu shows at the far left on
>> the menu bar but I want it just past the Edit menu.
>>
>> The TopComponent code is as follows:
>>
>>
>> @ActionID(category = "Admin", id =
>> "org.drsolutions.dro.base.OperatorListTopComponent")
>>
>> @ActionReferences({
>> @ActionReference(path = "Menu/Admin", position = 200),
>> @ActionReference(path = "Toolbars/Admin", position = 200)
>> })
>>
>> Is there some way to place the Admin menu the same way menuitems are
>> placed within the menu with a position attribute?
>>
>>
>>
>
