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?
>
>
>
