You can pass an Image object to a MenuItem object's setImage method to add an image to a menu item. Here's an example:
Display display = new Display ( ); final Image image = new Image (display, "c:\helpitem.jpg"); . . . menuItem.setImage(image);
9.9.4 See Also
Recipe 9.7 on creating a menu system; Recipe 9.8 on creating text menu items; Recipe 9.10 on creating radio menu items; Recipe 9.11 on creating menu item accelerators and mnemonics ; Recipe 9.12 on enabling and disabling menu items; Chapter 8 in Eclipse (O'Reilly).