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Richard Stegman

Posts: 3
Nickname: steg
Registered: Nov, 2004

Java Menu

Posted: Nov 27, 2004 6:56 PM

I'm trying to figure out how to make a menu name on the menubar act like a menuitem. For example, rather than placing "Quit" as a menuitem under some menu, I'd like to place the menu "Quit" on the menubar and have the application exit when the user selects the "Quit" menu. Any help would be appreciated.

Singh M.

Posts: 154
Nickname: ms
Registered: Mar, 2002

Re: Java Menu

Posted: Nov 28, 2004 4:41 AM

> I'm trying to figure out how to make a menu name on the
> menubar act like a menuitem. For example, rather than
> placing "Quit" as a menuitem under some menu, I'd like to
> place the menu "Quit" on the menubar and have the
> application exit when the user selects the "Quit" menu.
> Any help would be appreciated.

Did you try checking the Swing Tutorial available on Sun's site?

Richard Stegman

Posts: 3
Nickname: steg
Registered: Nov, 2004

Re: Java Menu

Posted: Nov 28, 2004 1:32 PM

The Swing tutorial was my original reference. I've also looked at various texts from Sun and O'Reilly and invariably the discussion revolves around associating ActionListeners with JMenuItem objects and not JMenu objects. I've tried associating an ActionListener with a JMenu object to no avail. This seems strange as JMenu inherits from JMenuItem. Any thuoghts on what I'm missing?

Matthias Neumair

Posts: 660
Nickname: neumi
Registered: Sep, 2003

Re: Java Menu

Posted: Nov 29, 2004 1:18 AM

Add a Listener for keyTyped and MouseClicked:

jMenu1.addKeyListener(new java.awt.event.KeyAdapter() {
  public void keyTyped(java.awt.event.KeyEvent evt) {
    if (evt.getKeyCode() == evt.VK_ENTER) {
      doSomethingVeryImportant();
    }
  }
});
jMenu1.addMouseListener(new java.awt.event.MouseAdapter() {
  public void mouseClicked(java.awt.event.MouseEvent evt) {
    if (evt.getButton() == evt.BUTTON1) {
      doSomethingVeryImportant();
    }
  }
});

Richard Stegman

Posts: 3
Nickname: steg
Registered: Nov, 2004

Re: Java Menu

Posted: Nov 29, 2004 6:43 PM

That's what I'm looking for. I obviously have much more to learn. Thanks for opening up another door.

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