Can I add more start menu items to my program with JavaFX?

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I'm using the JavaFX Gradle plugin to build my JavaFX application. Is it possible to add more than one start menu item to the finished installer?

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1 Answers

After answering your other question regarding additional native launchers I checked the sources of the JDK, to see what is needed for this.

Any launcher with the enabled "needMenu"-property will be reflected in some menu-entry inside the start-menu. Just add something like this to your buildfile: 

jfx {
    // ... normal configuration ...

    // your secondary entry points, each will inherit the configuration, unless you specify otherwise here
    secondaryLaunchers = [
        [
            appName: 'somethingDifferent2',
            mainClass: 'your.different.entrypoint.MainApp',
            // the following is required for an start-menu entry
            needMenu: true
        ]
    ]
}

Disclaimer: I'm the creator of that JavaFX-Gradle-plugin

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