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<h1>:: Menu Bar and Tool Bar Options ::</h1>
The following JGoodies options enable you
to tweak the visual appearance of your menu- and tool bars.
<h2>Setting Header Style</h2>
Setting a header style is the recommended way
to tell the JGoodies looks, that a menu bar
or tool bar is in the application header.
Each JGoodies look will look for a header style
and then choose an appropriate look-specific border and 3D effect.
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JMenuBar menuBar = new JMenuBar();
menuBar.putClientProperty(Options.HEADER_STYLE_KEY, HeaderStyle.BOTH);
JToolBar toolBar = new JToolBar();
toolBar.putClientProperty(Options.HEADER_STYLE_KEY, HeaderStyle.BOTH);
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Use the <tt>HeaderStyle.BOTH</tt> if both, menu bar and tool bar
are in the application's header. The look may then wrap both
components with a border. Use <tt>HeaderStyle.SINGLE</tt>
in case, you have just a menu bar <i>or</i> tool bar
in the header.
<h2>Border Style</h2>
You can override the header style by setting a look-specific
<tt>BorderStyle</tt>: <tt>EMPTY</tt>, <tt>ETCHED</tt>,
or <tt>SEPARATOR</tt>. For example:
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JMenuBar menuBar = new JMenuBar();
menuBar.putClientProperty(Options.HEADER_STYLE_KEY, HeaderStyle.SINGLE);
menuBar.putClientProperty(PlasticLookAndFeel.BORDER_STYLE_KEY, BorderStyle.SEPARATOR);
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<h2>Plastic 3D Hint</h2>
Plastic chooses an appropriate default pseudo 3D effect
for the specified header and border style.
You can override the default by setting a Plastic 3D hint:
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JMenuBar menuBar = new JMenuBar();
menuBar.putClientProperty(Options.HEADER_STYLE_KEY, HeaderStyle.SINGLE);
menuBar.putClientProperty(PlasticLookAndFeel.IS_3D_KEY, Boolean.FALSE);
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