JMenu : Java Glossary

JMenu

pulldown list of actions the user can select across the top of a JFrame. See the essay on menus on how I think user-configurable, globally-configurable, menus should be implemented. In Swing you use four classes to set up a menu: JMenuBar, JMenu, JMenuItem and JRadioButtonMenuItem. Here is how you use them:

In AWT (Advanced Windowing Toolkit) you need: MenuBar, Menu and MenuItem. In Swing you use: JMenuBar, JMenu, JMenuItem, JRadioButtonMenuItem and JPopupMenu.

Even if you have only one JMenuItem, you still need to enclose it in a JMenuBar and and JMenu.

JMenuItems don’t have ticks to mark the selected item. To get that effect you must use a JRadioButtonMenuItem and a ButtonGroup.

Learning More

Oracle’s tutorial on JMenu

Oracle’s Javadoc on JMenuBar class : available:

on the web at Oracle.com
in the current JDK 1.7.0_02 or in the old JDK 1.6.0_30 on your local Windows J: drive.

Oracle’s Javadoc on JMenu class : available:

on the web at Oracle.com
in the current JDK 1.7.0_02 or in the old JDK 1.6.0_30 on your local Windows J: drive.

Oracle’s Javadoc on JMenuItem class : available:

on the web at Oracle.com
in the current JDK 1.7.0_02 or in the old JDK 1.6.0_30 on your local Windows J: drive.

Oracle’s Javadoc on JRadioButtonMenuItem class : available:

on the web at Oracle.com
in the current JDK 1.7.0_02 or in the old JDK 1.6.0_30 on your local Windows J: drive.

Oracle’s Javadoc on JSeparator class : available:

on the web at Oracle.com
in the current JDK 1.7.0_02 or in the old JDK 1.6.0_30 on your local Windows J: drive.

Oracle’s Javadoc on JPopupMenu class : available:

on the web at Oracle.com
in the current JDK 1.7.0_02 or in the old JDK 1.6.0_30 on your local Windows J: drive.

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