JPopMenu goes out of screen

[vinaya kumar]

Hi,
How to handle the Jpopmenu items when
no of menuitems goes out of screen..

any pointers...

vinaya

[Manfred Leonhardt]

Hi,
Two suggestions:
1. Re-register with a valid user name: firstName + space + lastName. Read the naming policy here .
2. Assuming you mean having to many items to display on one screen, you should use pullrights and group the items in a more usable fashion. No one likes to scrolldown more than 12 items on a menu.
Regards,
Manfred.

[Nathan Pruett]

vinay,

You need to re-register with a user name that follows the JavaRanch UserName Guidelines. Your user name is required to be in the format "First Name" + space + "Last Name".

That said, on to you problem... What I would do is one of two things...

Organize my menuitems inside menus on the popup, so the the user pops the popup menu up, chooses a menu and then chooses a menu item.

Pop different popup menus up depending on where on the screen the user clicked. This way you will have a popup menu appropriate to whatever the user is trying to do.

-Nate

[vinaya kumar]

Oops! ,
i have updated.
problem with approach of grouping is that
u have to stop that at some point.
and thatz the root level.
i my case For example. we have a display alpha bets in popmenu,how do u group them .
Further my gui is such that the popmenu
is always at lower half of the screen,leadng my worry.
can we have a scroll bar to popmenu..
if yes is that a good idea

oh yes yes! i forgot !!
i am creating popups dynamically,so don't know
when it will exceed the screensize..
is there a way to find the exceeding screen limit..
i hope i am clear with the problem presenting
Thanks and Regards
vinaya

[Nathan Pruett]

You can get the screen size from the Toolkit.getScreenSize() method... it returns a Dimension...

If you are displaying a list of languages or a full alphabet, that is too many things anyway! You need to redesign your GUI! A ComboBox on the GUI (or on a dialog window, if the list doesn't always need to be up...) takes up little space while it is not active, and when activated provides a scrollable list.

Maybe we could give you some ideas about how to redesign your GUI if you said what you expect the user to do with the data in your popup...

-Nate

[David Vickers]

Apologies for revisiting this old posting, but I am interested in the outcome.

I have similar issue, and would like to limit the list of menuitems to 12 visible at a time, allowing the built-in scrolling to handle movement through the list?

Any ideas,

Dave

[Yan Bezugliy]

Has anyone had success implementing scrollable menu?
Thanks.