B4J Library Menubar extended Update 1.3

Guenter Becker · Oct 1, 2025

Name: GBEMenubar
Version: 1.3
Language: B4J
License: Royalty free
(C) icons Royalty free from icons8.com
(C) audio file Royalty free from pixabay.com

Thank you for the Basic Ideas of some Forum Members who published the code snippeds of:
ShortCut (Daestrum) and setMenuIcon (tchart clickable Title) and CSS/Badge (Paul Meuris).
Hope to solved requested features. Please help us to use and test View.

The B4J Menubar with extende features:

Custom View for Designer
Customizable Bar Menu and MenuItems and Menubar-Tooltip GUI/Properties.
With predefined Themes (css files) selectable form designer property.
- Solid Background
- 2 color Gradient Background
- Multicolor Gradient Background
- Individual Image as Background
Add Tooltip to Bar
Add Badge to Bar
Add shortcut ctrl+ or alt+ to Item
Add Icon to Menu or Item
Add separator line to Items
Use key click beep with individual sound
Build Menu automated on base on structure file (New structure!)
Build Menu by code
Enabled/disable Items by code
Show/hide Items by code
Custom Event MenuClicked(ID)
Custom Event ItemClicked(ID)
Retrive lib version info to check for update
German and English Manual

The new Menu_Clicked Event is a good place to control the access (enabled/disabled) of the attached MenuItems.

Due to too big load Custom Project and documents from here

Theera · Oct 5, 2025

Guenter Becker said:
Name: GBEMenubar
Version: 1.1
Language: B4J
License: Royalty free
(C) icons Royalty free from icons8.com

*Update Version 1.1*
After a long research I found a solution for some open features I like to add. Therefor I publish this update short after release to get the missing features quickly to your hands. Look at the description in the features list with red text.

Thank you for the Basic Ideas of some Forum Members who published the code snippeds of:
ShortCut (Daestrum) and setMenuIcon (tchart clickable Title).

The B4J Menubar with extende features:
View attachment 167502

Custom View for Designer

Customizable MenuBar GUI/Properties.

Load Menustructure form File and build Menus and MenuItems.

No need to build Menus/Items via Jason Code of MenuBar-View/Menus Property.

Easy Add Menus/MenuItems by code manually.

enable/disable MenuItems by code.

show/hide MenuItems by code.

(Title) Menu and Menuitems with Icons.

MenuItem with Separator Line.

MenuItem with ShortCut Key (Ctrl+ .. ).

Custom Event ItemCLicked (MenuItem) with reported MenuItem-ID.

Custom Event MenuClicked (Title) with reported Menu-ID.

Activate/Deactivate Click-Beep

'# Properties #
'GBEMenuBar1.hideMenuItem '# show/hide MenuItem
'GBEMenuBar1.AddMenu '# Add (Title- ) Menu
'GBEMenuBar1.AddMenuItem '# Add (Sub-) MenuItem
'GBEMenuBar1.enableMenuItem '# enable/disable MenuItem
'GBEMenuBar1.hideMenuItem '# show/hide MenuItem
'GBEMenuBar1.LoadMenu '# load and build menu from file
'GBEMenuBar1.Menubar '# the MenuBar View
'GBEMenuBar1.actBeep '# actvate Beep

The new Menu_Clicked Event is a good place to control the access (enabled/disabled) of the attached MenuItems.

See how to install and use by attached B4J Example Projec:.

Example includes the CustomView as Class in clear Code.

B4J B4Xlib is included in Project ZIP

Copy Files Menu.txt (Structure Description) and MyMenu.css (custom GUI) from Example Project File Folder to your Projects Files Folder.
Modify the files for your needs

After I have test,I found that I can't change hotkey ctrl+D to be Alt+D. How to fix this problem,Sir.

Guenter Becker · Oct 5, 2025

Hello,
that is correct. In Version 1.1. the Key is fixed to Ctrl. I recognized that and will update to Version 1.2 in the next week. This update will give you the feature you are searching for to choose between ctrl and alt.
If you can't wait you have to modifiy the customview code (sub addMemuItem) and the format of the Menu.txt too because at the moment the Menu.txt structure file does not include it..

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