How can I add JMenuBars,JMenus and JMenuItems using IntelliJ's Swing GUI Designer?

Question

I can't find the components specified in the title anywhere in IntelliJ's Palette. I notice that the form has a JMenuBar, but I don't see it, and I don't know how to access it. Is there any way of using these components visually?

Allopathy

You don't "add" JMenuBars to a form in Swing; you call myFrame.setJMenuBar(theMenuBar). So that's probably why you can't drag-and-drop them. Unfortunately, that's all the help I can give you. Maybe you right-click on the form object or something, like you do in NetBeans. – Mispleading

In NetBeans you can drag & drop them. You can also drag them in Visual Swing 4 Eclipse, so, not being able to do the same thing in IntelliJ is odd. – Allopathy

Well, I think it used to be that you couldn't drag and drop them. At least that sticks in my head for some reason. Is there a tree of components like there is in NetBeans? – Mispleading

Yes, there is.In both IntelliJ and Visual Swing. – Allopathy

Can you right-click the JFrame in the tree and select to add a JMenuBar? That's the way I've done it in NetBeans before. – Mispleading

JFrame is not included in the palette. Right clicking the JFrame doesn't show a JMenuBar option. – Allopathy

Answer 1

Creating menus like this isn't currently available in the IntelliJ designer. Their official solution is to use the JFormDesigner plugin for intelliJ. Or of course to code them by hand. Here is a link to the discussion in their forums :-

IntelliJ thread

Thanks, jT

Heti

@Joao that link has become malicious. Just FYI. – Phototopography

I think I'm missing context re the above comment. The link redirects to intellij-support.jetbrains.com and is fine. Maybe it refers to some comments that were since deleted. – Ryals