Question

I am in the process of developing a simple JFrame based GUI to which I’ve added a JMenuBar and which in turn has the usual JMenuItems added to it – “File:”, “Edit:”, etc.

I would like to be able to add another JMenuItem – “About:” – to the far right-hand side of the JMenuBar. Is this possible without too much hackery – I would like a lean, simple way to do this if it’s possible?

This is what I’m trying to achieve:

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File: Edit: Tools:                                                                About:      
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Thanks for helping out 🙂

Edit \ Update – 12-8-2010:
Edited the title of my question to read JMenu instead of JMenuItem.

Compiled a simple app to test the code given in the accepted answer below and it works perfectly !!!

Answer 1

See http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/menu.html#custom

//...create and add some menus...
menuBar.add(Box.createHorizontalGlue());
//...create the rightmost menu...
menuBar.add(rightMenu);