PlatformMenuBarModifier class

A menu bar that uses the platform's native APIs to construct and render a menu described by a PlatformMenu/PlatformMenuItem hierarchy.

This widget is especially useful on macOS, where a system menu is a required part of every application. Flutter only includes support for macOS out of the box, but support for other platforms may be provided via plugins that set WidgetsBinding.platformMenuDelegate in their initialization.

The menus member contains MenuItems. They will not be part of the widget tree, since they are not required to be widgets (even if they happen to be widgets that implement MenuItem, they still won't be part of the widget tree). They are provided to configure the properties of the menus on the platform menu bar.

As far as Flutter is concerned, this widget has no visual representation, and intercepts no events: it just returns the child from its build function. This is because all of the rendering, shortcuts, and event handling for the menu is handled by the plugin on the host platform.

There can only be one PlatformMenuBar at a time using the same PlatformMenuDelegate. It will assert if more than one is detected.

When calling toStringDeep on this widget, it will give a tree of MenuItems, not a tree of widgets.

{@tool sample} This example shows a PlatformMenuBar that contains a single top level menu, containing three items for "About", a toggleable menu item for showing a message, a cascading submenu with message choices, and "Quit".

This example will only work on macOS.

** See code in examples/api/lib/material/platform_menu_bar/platform_menu_bar.0.dart ** {@end-tool}

Inheritance
Available extensions

Constructors

PlatformMenuBarModifier({Key? key, Key? modifierKey, Widget? child, required List menus})
Creates a const PlatformMenuBar.
const

Properties

hashCode → int
The hash code for this object.
no setterinherited
key → Key?
Controls how one widget replaces another widget in the tree.
finalinherited
The list of menu items that are the top level children of the PlatformMenuBar.
final
modifierKey → Key?
The actual key of the widget, which Modifier wrapped
finalinherited
runtimeType → Type
A representation of the runtime type of the object.
no setterinherited

Methods

build(BuildContext context) → Widget
Describes the part of the user interface represented by this widget.
inherited
buildWithChild(BuildContext context, Widget? child) → Widget
A build method that receives an extra child parameter.
override
createElement() → SingleChildStatelessElement
Create a SingleChildStatelessElement
inherited
debugDescribeChildren() → List<DiagnosticsNode>
Returns a list of DiagnosticsNode objects describing this node's children.
inherited
debugFillProperties(DiagnosticPropertiesBuilder properties) → void
Add additional properties associated with the node.
inherited
noSuchMethod(Invocation invocation) → dynamic
Invoked when a nonexistent method or property is accessed.
inherited
toDiagnosticsNode({String? name, DiagnosticsTreeStyle? style}) → DiagnosticsNode
Returns a debug representation of the object that is used by debugging tools and by DiagnosticsNode.toStringDeep.
inherited
toString({DiagnosticLevel minLevel = DiagnosticLevel.info}) → String
A string representation of this object.
inherited
toStringDeep({String prefixLineOne = '', String? prefixOtherLines, DiagnosticLevel minLevel = DiagnosticLevel.debug}) → String
Returns a string representation of this node and its descendants.
inherited
toStringShallow({String joiner = ', ', DiagnosticLevel minLevel = DiagnosticLevel.debug}) → String
Returns a one-line detailed description of the object.
inherited
toStringShort() → String
A short, textual description of this widget.
inherited

Operators

operator ==(Object other) → bool
The equality operator.
inherited