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I am a nut about conserving screen space. If I design my app manually, I can put JButtons into a JMenuBar. This lets my users know that some actions are press-to-initiate without taking other space up in my app screen. But if I try this with Matisse, I am unable to drage a Button onto a MenuBar. It seems to me that this is legitimate and should be supported.
Should be technically possible, though it seems a bit strange to me to add to menu anything else than menu.
Created attachment 42426 [details] An example showing the utility of buttons
So, in my app, Previous, next, and app are all buttons. Status is a JLabel and JTextField. Why should I have to waste screen real estate and put them elsewhere? Using a button shows the user that it is a pushable item.
This is this a very unusual use case I'm going to lower the priority and call it a feature request.
It is not unusual. Its just that people have not thought to do it. The usual GUI is bloated.
Aside from the fact that the MenuBar specs allow placement of other items, and hence it is a defect.
*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 105059 ***