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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 you need: MenuBar, Menu and MenuItem. In Swing you use: JMenuBar, JMenu, JMenuItem, JRadioButtonMenuItem and JPopupMenu.

Learning More

Sun’s tutorial on JMenu
Sun’s Javadoc on the JMenuBar class : available:
Sun’s Javadoc on the JMenu class : available:
Sun’s Javadoc on the JMenuItem class : available:
Sun’s Javadoc on the JRadioButtonMenuItem class : available:
Sun’s Javadoc on the JSeparator class : available:
Sun’s Javadoc on the JPopupMenu class : available:
AWT
essay on menus
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Menu
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