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Cross-platform SystemTray support for Swing/AWT, macOS, GtkStatusIcon, and AppIndicator on Java 8+
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Not able to scroll the menu items inside SystemTray #141

Closed mahendra-korat closed 3 years ago

mahendra-korat commented 3 years ago

I have added the System Tray successfully with more than 100 menu items which my application has. However I am not able to scroll the menu items. Am I missing anything to add scroll bar?

dorkbox commented 3 years ago

You're not missing anything. 100 menu items is... a lot, and honestly way more than I would have thought allowed by any OS.

I wouldn't recommend more than 10 or so in a single list, and if more are required -- a sub-menu would be the appropriate option. The official tests/examples have this if you are curious how it works.

I'm closing this because there's nothing that can be done regarding this, as it is an OS limitation (scroll bars aren't possible).

mahendra-korat commented 3 years ago

The normal SystemTray in Java is allowed and we were using the same till date and it is allowed by MAC OS, Windows & Ubuntu as least. We have decided to move on this library because Ubuntu stopped supporting the existing SystemTray of Java. However if scroll bar is not supported we will figure it out something else. Thanks for your reply.

dorkbox commented 3 years ago

The solution is to use a sub-menu. The "java" version creates java windows, which can have scrollbars, this library, the "SystemTray", creates native ones by calling C code.

mahendra-korat commented 3 years ago

No worries. Thanks for your suggestion. We will try that as well.