JDK-8090623 : TextArea context menu should be set as contextMenu property
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: javafx
  • Sub-Component: controls
  • Affected Version: 7u6
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Open
  • Resolution: Unresolved
  • Submitted: 2012-07-04
  • Updated: 2018-09-05
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Related Reports
Relates :  
JDK-8091503 - [TextArea, TextField] I18N for Default ContextMenu of TextInput
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JDK-8120816 - Calls to setContextMenu() in TextField and TextArea result in double menus shown
Description
TextArea contains context menu. I'd expect it to be available through contextMenu property so it is possible to customize its items. However, the property is null if not set and the following weird double menus appear if you set your own context menu.

        TextArea textArea = new TextArea();
        textArea.setContextMenu(contextMenu);
Comments
This problem also affects, for example, TextFieldListCell. If a context menu is set on the TextFieldListCell it displays correctly when in non-editing mode but when the cell is in editing mode right clicking on the text field brings up both context menus. Left clicking in the text field seems to dismiss the top context menu so the users can still access the cut + paste menu.
14-06-2013
Thank you for the link.
09-10-2012
A user asked a related question on forums about how to style this default contextMenu (which is currently not possible without overriding the default skin I think): https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2449176
08-10-2012
A separate issue RT-24823 was created for the double menu bug. This will be fixed for FX 8.0 The default context menu is created by the control's skin, which is currently not public API. We need to decide if and when the context menu should be accessible through the public API, but it will probably need to wait for the broader work to make skins more public.
07-09-2012