setHelpMenu() works only once on the same MenuBar.

Name: joT67522 Date: 08/22/97


1. The source code should be self explaining:


// File: HelpMenu.java
//
// setHelpMenu only works for the first time, it is called. Any
// subsequent call shows the menu at a wrong position on the MenuBar.
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

public class HelpMenu extends Frame implements ActionListener {
        public static void main(String[] args) {
                HelpMenu helpMenu = new HelpMenu();
                helpMenu.show();
        }

        public HelpMenu() {
                MenuBar mb = new MenuBar();

                Menu m = new Menu("File");
                mb.add(m);

                m = new Menu("Help");
                mb.setHelpMenu(m);

                setMenuBar(mb);

                setBounds(100, 100, 200, 200);

                Button b = new Button("Test bug");
                b.addActionListener(this);
                add(b);
        }

        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                if (e.getActionCommand().equals("Test bug")) {
                        Menu m = new Menu("Help");
                        getMenuBar().setHelpMenu(m);
                }
        }
}
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I have a MenuBar with 3 Menu's.
1. File // added with add(Menu m)
2. Edit // added with add(Menu m)
3. Help // added with setHelpMenu(Menu m)

Now I want to add one new Menu, after Edit
and before Help. How can I do that, do I have
to:
 remove(helpMenu);
 add(newMenu);
 setHelpMenu(helpMenu);

If I only do "add(newMenu);", then the menubar
adds the new Menu behind the HelpMenu. I
exspected that the HelpMenu is a special one
and has it's position always at the end of the
menubar. Is this a bug or did I exspect the
wrong functioning of the helpmenu ?

Frank