Eclipse Cookbook

9.13. Creating Menu Separators

Problem

You want to separate menu items into groups using horizontal lines.

Solution

Create a new menu item that will act as a separator by setting its style to SWT.SEPARATOR.

Discussion

Here’s an example that creates a menu separator and adds it to the File menu:

fileMenuSeparator = new MenuItem(fileMenu, SWT.SEPARATOR);

See Also

Recipe 9.7 on creating a menu system; Recipe 9.8 on creating text menu items; Recipe 9.9 on creating image menu items; Recipe 9.10 on creating radio menu items; Recipe 9.11 on creating menu item accelerators and mnemonics; Chapter 8 in Eclipse (O’Reilly).