A popup menu of actionable items which is displayed to the user only upon request. When a menu is visible, in most use cases, the user can select one menu item before the menu goes back to its hidden state. This means the menu is a good place to put important functionality that does not necessarily need to be visible at all times to the user.
Menus are typically placed in a MenuBar, or as a submenu of another Menu.
If the intention is to offer a context menu when the user right-clicks in a
certain area of their user interface, then this is the wrong control to use.
This is because when Menu is added to the scenegraph, it has a visual
representation that will result in it appearing on screen. Instead,
ContextMenu should be used in this circumstance.
Creating a Menu and inserting it into a MenuBar is easy, as shown below:
final Menu menu1 = new Menu("File");
MenuBar menuBar = new MenuBar();
menuBar.getMenus().add(menu1);
A Menu is a subclass of MenuItem which means that it can be inserted
into a Menu's items ObservableList, resulting in a submenu being created:
MenuItem menu12 = new MenuItem("Open");
menu1.getItems().add(menu12);
The items ObservableList allows for any MenuItem type to be inserted,
including its subclasses Menu, MenuItem, RadioMenuItem, CheckMenuItem,
CustomMenuItem and SeparatorMenuItem. In order to insert an arbitrary Node to
a Menu, a CustomMenuItem can be used. One exception to this general rule is that
SeparatorMenuItem could be used for inserting a separator.
extends