Course: Advanced Java, Prepared By: Atul Kabra, 9422279260
Adv. Java Lecture-22
Topic: Creating Menu using MenuBar, Menu and MenuItem
AWT also support another type of user interface elements, the pull
down menus that are familiar from GUI applications.
A menu bar on top of the window contains the names of the pull down
menus. Clicking on a name opens the menu containing menus items and
submenus. When the user clicks on a menu item, all menus are closed
and a message is sent to the program.
Building Menus:
Building menus is straightforward. You create a menu bar
MenuBar menuBar = new MenuBar();
Then, you can add it menu bar on the top of frame using the
setMenuBar() method.
[Link](menuBar);
For each menu, you create a menu object
Menu editMenu = new Menu(“Edit”);
Course: Advanced Java, Info Planet Programming Classes Prepared By: Atul Kabra, 9422279260
Course: Advanced Java, Prepared By: Atul Kabra, 9422279260
You add the top level menus to the menu bar
[Link](editMenu);
You add menu items, separators, and submenus to the menu object
MenuItem pasteMenu = new MenuItem(“Paste”);
[Link](pasteMenu);
[Link]();
Menu optionMenu = …..; // a submenu
[Link](optionMenu);
When the user selects a menu, an action event is triggered. You need to
install an action listener for each menu item.
ActionListener listener = ….;
[Link](listener);
There is a convenient method [Link](String s) that holds a menu
item to the end of a menu, for example
[Link](“Paste”);
The add method returns the created menu item, so that you can capture
it and then add the listener, as follows
MenuItem pasteItem = [Link](“Paste”);
[Link](listener);
Program to demonstrate MenuBar, Menu and MenuItem:
import [Link].*;
import [Link].*;
class MenuTest extends Frame implements ActionListener
{
MenuBar mb = new MenuBar();
Menu file = new Menu("File");
Menu edit = new Menu("Edit");
Menu help = new Menu("Help");
Menu op = new Menu("Options");
MenuItem n = new MenuItem("New", new MenuShortcut(KeyEvent.VK_N,false));
Course: Advanced Java, Info Planet Programming Classes Prepared By: Atul Kabra, 9422279260
Course: Advanced Java, Prepared By: Atul Kabra, 9422279260
CheckboxMenuItem open = new CheckboxMenuItem("Open");
MenuItem save = new MenuItem("Save");
MenuItem exit = new MenuItem("Exit");
MenuItem cut = new MenuItem("Cut");
MenuItem copy = new MenuItem("Copy");
MenuItem paste = new MenuItem("Paste");
MenuItem about = new MenuItem("About");
MenuItem read = new MenuItem("Read");
MenuItem write = new MenuItem("Write");
MenuTest()
{
setSize(600,500);
setTitle("Menu Test");
[Link](n); //adding menuitems under menus
[Link](open);
[Link](save);
[Link]();
[Link](op); //adding options as submenu of file menu
[Link]();
[Link](exit);
[Link](read);
[Link](write);
[Link](cut);
[Link](copy);
[Link](paste);
[Link](about);
[Link](file); //adding menus on Menubar
[Link](edit);
[Link](help);
setMenuBar(mb); //setting MenuBar on frame
[Link](this);
[Link](this);
[Link](this);
Course: Advanced Java, Info Planet Programming Classes Prepared By: Atul Kabra, 9422279260
Course: Advanced Java, Prepared By: Atul Kabra, 9422279260
[Link](this);
}
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
{
String s = [Link]();
if([Link]("Exit"))
[Link](0);
else
setTitle(s+" Menu Item is selected");
}
public static void main(String args[])
{
MenuTest f = new MenuTest();
[Link](true);
}
}
Output:
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