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Magic Menu Editor

Magic Menu is a special version of the Codepad editor. It was designed to edit java properties files containing menubar and toolbar definitions, which are plain text documents. The editor provides useful dialogs to insert toolbars, menubars, menus and menu items. Menubars and toolbars can be previewed using a swing view or a AWT view. Source code templates are available to create loader classes for the toolbar or menubar. This loader classes can be used to load the menubars and toolbars from within your application.

Menubar

Preview Menubars and Toolbars

Click the preview button of the Magic Menu toolbar. This will pop up the following dialog:

You can specify a menubar or a toolbar or both. If "swing enabled" is checked, the preview window will use swing components; otherwise it will use AWT components. If "Use Images in Menu Items" is checked, images will not only displayed in toolbar buttons, they will also be displayed beside the menu label. When using AWT components, images aren't available; the menu label will be displayed instead of an image in the toolbar buttons. The preview window has an edit control; the action field of the menu items is inserted there (when clicking on an item). Beside this, error messages about not found menu resources etc. are inserted into this edit control.