Java GUI – Creating Menu Button in JavaFX

In this Java GUI article we are going to learn Creating Menu Button in JavaFX, so MenuButton

is a button which, when clicked or pressed, will show a ContextMenu . a MenuButton shares a

very similar API to the Menu control, so for that you set the items that should be shown in

the items ObservableList, and there is a Labeled. text property to specify the label shown within

the MenuButton.

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You can create Menu Button by creating the object of MenuButton class like this.

you need to give the text for the MenuButton, an image and also the items that you want to

add in this MenuButton.

MenuButton menuButton = new MenuButton("Programming Languages",imageView, item1, item2, item3, item4);

1	MenuButton menuButton = new MenuButton("Programming Languages",imageView, item1, item2, item3, item4);

So now this is the source code for Java GUI – Creating Menu Button in JavaFX

import javafx.application.Application;
import javafx.event.ActionEvent;
import javafx.event.EventHandler;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.scene.control.Menu;
import javafx.scene.control.MenuButton;
import javafx.scene.control.MenuItem;
import javafx.scene.image.Image;
import javafx.scene.image.ImageView;
import javafx.scene.layout.HBox;
import javafx.stage.Stage;

import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

public class MenuButtons extends Application {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        launch(args);
    }

    @Override
    public void start(Stage stage) throws FileNotFoundException {
        stage.setTitle("JavaFX Menu Buttons");

        MenuItem item1 = new MenuItem("Java");
        MenuItem item2 = new Menu("Python");
        MenuItem item3 = new Menu("C++");
        MenuItem item4 = new Menu("Scala");


        FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream("images/myicon.png");
        Image image = new Image(inputStream);
        ImageView imageView = new ImageView(image);



        MenuButton menuButton = new MenuButton("Programming Languages",imageView, item1, item2, item3, item4);


        item1.setOnAction(new EventHandler<ActionEvent>() {
            @Override
            public void handle(ActionEvent event) {
                System.out.println("Item One Is Selected");
            }
        });

        HBox hbox = new HBox(menuButton);

        Scene scene = new Scene(hbox, 400, 300);
        stage.setScene(scene);
        stage.show();




    }
}

import javafx.application.Application;

import javafx.event.ActionEvent;

import javafx.event.EventHandler;

import javafx.scene.Scene;

import javafx.scene.control.Menu;

import javafx.scene.control.MenuButton;

import javafx.scene.control.MenuItem;

import javafx.scene.image.Image;

import javafx.scene.image.ImageView;

import javafx.scene.layout.HBox;

import javafx.stage.Stage;

import java.io.FileInputStream;

import java.io.FileNotFoundException;

public class MenuButtons extends Application {

public static void main(String[] args) {

launch(args);

}

@Override

public void start(Stage stage) throws FileNotFoundException {

stage.setTitle("JavaFX Menu Buttons");

MenuItem item1 = new MenuItem("Java");

MenuItem item2 = new Menu("Python");

MenuItem item3 = new Menu("C++");

MenuItem item4 = new Menu("Scala");

FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream("images/myicon.png");

Image image = new Image(inputStream);

ImageView imageView = new ImageView(image);

MenuButton menuButton = new MenuButton("Programming Languages",imageView, item1, item2, item3, item4);

item1.setOnAction(new EventHandler<ActionEvent>() {

@Override

public void handle(ActionEvent event) {

System.out.println("Item One Is Selected");

}

});

HBox hbox = new HBox(menuButton);

Scene scene = new Scene(hbox, 400, 300);

stage.setScene(scene);

stage.show();

}

These are the menu items that we need to for the MenuButton, basically there are four

menu items that we want.

MenuItem item1 = new MenuItem("Java");
MenuItem item2 = new Menu("Python");
MenuItem item3 = new Menu("C++");
MenuItem item4 = new Menu("Scala");

MenuItem item1 = new MenuItem("Java");

MenuItem item2 = new Menu("Python");

MenuItem item3 = new Menu("C++");

MenuItem item4 = new Menu("Scala");

This is the image that we want to add for the JavaFX MenuButton, make sure that you have

already added an icon in your working directory.

FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream("images/myicon.png");
Image image = new Image(inputStream);
ImageView imageView = new ImageView(image);

FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream("images/myicon.png");

Image image = new Image(inputStream);

ImageView imageView = new ImageView(image);

In every JavaFX application we need to create a container, a container is like layout. as we

have created an HBox container in the above code, and we add our MenuButton object in the

HBox Layout.

HBox hbox = new HBox(menuButton);

1	HBox hbox = new HBox(menuButton);

Also for every JavaFX application we need to create a Scene object. in the scene we need

to add our container with the width and height of the window, if you want to colorize your

window, you can do it in here. you can see that we have given 400 width and 300 height for the

window.

Scene scene = new Scene(hbox, 400, 300);

1	Scene scene = new Scene(hbox, 400, 300);

At the end you need to set your scene object to the stage of the window, and show the window.

stage.setScene(scene);
stage.show();

1 2	stage.setScene(scene); stage.show();

Run the complete code and this will be the result

Java GUI – Creating Menu Button in JavaFX

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