Does & actually create a mnemonic?

[darryl]

Hi,

I'm adding a '&' character to menu text to get a Mnemonic, but nothings happening. The & character is simply displayed with the other text. If I manually add a setMnemonic() in the source then nothing happens in the designer or preview, but the underline works as expected when I run the application.

Has something broken in the latest 4.0.1 update (29 May 2005) or did it never work? Am I missing something?

Regards


Darryl

[Eric Clayberg]

I'm adding a '&' character to menu text to get a Mnemonic, but nothings happening. The & character is simply displayed with the other text. If I manually add a setMnemonic() in the source then nothing happens in the designer or preview, but the underline works as expected when I run the application.

Swing menu items and buttons don't use ampersands to indicate mnemonics (SWT does do this).

In Swing you need to use setMnemonic() and optionally displayedMnemonicIndex().

Designer supports both of those properties. For mnemonics, we use the setMnemonic(int) form. For example:

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menuItem.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_J);