Fancy Menus

Posted by Jiro Doke, February 18, 2011

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Jiro's pick this week is menubar by Dirk-Jan Kroon.

I'm honestly perplexed that his files have not been highlighted in Pick of the Week before. He is a big contributor to File Exchange with 57 submissions and second most downloaded in the last 30 days as of this writing. As you can see from his author page, many of his files have high ratings. I'm sure I'll be looking at more of his entries later.

This entry, menubar, is a clever one. Some of you may know that you can create menus in your GUI using uimenu. It allows you to create menus at the top of the GUI with a standard look and feel. Dirk-Jan's menubar lets you create fancy-looking menus. You can also place them anywhere in your GUI. The way you create it is to simply create a uicontextmenu and call menubar. He provides a sample GUI which you can run: