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JPopupMenu is the Java Swing implementation of a popup menu, a small window that pops up and displays a series of choices. A JPopupMenu is used for the menu that appears when the user selects an item on the menu bar. It is also used for "pull-right" menu that appears when the selects a menu item that activates it. Finally, a JPopupMenu can also be used anywhere else you want a menu to appear.

JPopupMenu is the Java Swing implementation of a popup menu, a small window that pops up and displays a series of choices. A JPopupMenu is used for the menu that appears when the user selects an item on the menu bar. It is also used for "pull-right" menu that appears when the selects a menu item that activates it. Finally, a JPopupMenu can also be used anywhere else you want a menu to appear.

For information and examples of using popup menus, see How to Use Menus in The Java Tutorial.

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How do I create a right click context menu in Java Swing?

I'm currently creating a right-click context menu by instantiating a new JMenu on right click and setting its location to that of the mouse's position... Is there a better way?
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How to create a JButton with a menu?

I want to create a Toolbar in my application. If you click a button on that toolbar, it will pop up a menu, just like in Eclipse's toolbar. I don't know how to do this in Swing. Can someone help me please? I've tried Google but found nothing.
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Adding vertical scroll to a JPopupMenu?

I would like to add a way to scroll through menu items in a JPopupMenu, much like scrolling through a list of items in a JComboBox. Let's say I have 10 menu items. I would like to display only 5 menu items at a time, and I would use a vertical…
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Swing and Nimbus: Replace background of JPopupMenu (attached to JMenu)

Nimbus often looks great, but for certain color combinations the result is non-optimal. In my case, the background of a JPopupMenu does not fit, which is why I want to set it manually. I'm on Java 7 and, interestingly, Nimbus fully ignores the…
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Adding JPopupMenu to the TrayIcon

I want to add JPopupMenu to the task bar as a TrayIcon (i.e systemTray.add(trayIcon)) but I haven't found a way to do so.From the docs the constructor of TrayIcon looks like : public TrayIcon(Image image, String tooltip, …
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Open popup(Menu) on task tray icon with left click using java

I am working on task tray Icon in java, I like to open a popup Menu using left click same popup Menu as I open on right click, and please help me with a quick response. Thanks in advance... here is the code working for right click need to show same…
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Stopping JPopupMenu stealing the focus

I have a JTextField for which I'm hoping to suggest results to match the user's input. I'm displaying these suggestions in a JList contained within a JPopupMenu. However, when opening the popup menu programmatically via show(Component invoker, int…
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JTable with JPopupMenu

how can I prevent triggering and showing JPopupMenu only if is Mouse Cursor over selected JTable'Row my question: if is there another way as getBounds from selected row and determine/compare that with Mouse position... my simple sscce demonstrated…
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How to prevent JPopUpMenu disappearing when checking checkboxes in it?

I want to use JCheckBoxMenuItems in a JPopupMenu. It works, but the problem is that the popup menu disappears when a checkbox item has been checked or unchecked. So if one wants to check/uncheck several items, the popup needs to be launched…
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Why does a small JPopupMenu cause visual artifacts whereas a larger one doesn't?

I'm using a single row JTabel with a MouseAdapter attached to it. The table model is populated with some random values. Upon right-clicking the table a JPopupMenu with several JMenuItems will appear. Visual artifacts start showing if part of the…
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How To Create a Pop Up Menu with Sub Menu in Java

I would like to add right click menu for my program. I added basit menu with the following code: Pmenu = new JPopupMenu("Menu"); menuItem = new JMenuItem("Sections"); Pmenu.add(menuItem); menuItem =…
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Create an inspecting properties window, button driven as a JDialog

What I asked originally didn't clearly state my question/problem, so I will explain it better. I have a JButton that sets a JDialog to visible. The JDialog has a WindowListener that sets it to NOT visible on the windowDeactivated() event, which is…
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Showing/hiding a JPopupMenu from a JButton; FocusListener not working?

I needed a JButton with an attached dropdown style menu. So I took a JPopupMenu and attached it to the JButton in the way you can see in the code below. What it needs to do is this: show the popup when clicked hide it if clicked a second time hide…
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How to get the component that invoked a JPopupMenu?

I have a JPopUpMenu that I added to multiple JTables and I would like to get the specific table that's right clicked so I can make changes to it. How can I get the component that triggers the JPopupMenu in the Action Listener? JPopupMenu popupMenu =…
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JPopupMenu display under Canvas

I have a Canvas, some text fields and a context menu. When I start the application and right click on the canvas a popup menu shows. But when I write something inside the text field than I right click on the canvas, the popup will shows behind the…
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