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The document discusses Java Swing JMenuBar, JMenu, and JMenuItem components. It defines their constructors and commonly used methods. It then provides two example programs, one demonstrating adding menu items to a menu bar, and another adding menu items, submenu items, and action listeners.

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Jmenu Item

The document discusses Java Swing JMenuBar, JMenu, and JMenuItem components. It defines their constructors and commonly used methods. It then provides two example programs, one demonstrating adding menu items to a menu bar, and another adding menu items, submenu items, and action listeners.

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Dr Bharti Sharma

Java Swing | JMenuBar


 JMenuBar, JMenu and JMenuItems are a part of Java Swing package.
 JMenuBar is an implementation of menu bar .
 The JMenuBar contains one or more JMenu objects, when the JMenu
objects are selected they display a popup showing one or more
JMenuItems .
 JMenu basically represents a menu .
 It contains several JMenuItem Object . It may also contain JMenu Objects
(or submenu).

Constructors :

 JMenuBar() : Creates a new MenuBar.


 JMenu() : Creates a new Menu with no text.
 JMenu(String name) : Creates a new Menu with a specified name.
 JMenu(String name, boolean b) : Creates a new Menu with a specified
name and boolean value specifies it as a tear-off menu or not. A tear-off
menu can be opened and dragged away from its parent menu bar or
menu.

Commonly used methods:


add(JMenu c) : Adds menu to the menu bar. Adds JMenu object to the Menu
bar.
add(Component c) : Add component to the end of JMenu
add(Component c, int index) : Add component to the specified index of
JMenu
add(JMenuItem menuItem) : Adds menu item to the end of the menu.
add(String s) : Creates a menu item with specified string and appends it to the
end of menu.
getItem(int index) : Returns the specified menuitem at the given index

The following programs will illustrate the use of JMenuBar

1. Program to make a MenuBar and add menu items to it


 Java

// Java program to construct


// Menu bar to add menu items
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
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public class menu extends JFrame {


// menubar
static JMenuBar mb;
// JMenu
static JMenu x;
// Menu items
static JMenuItem m1, m2, m3;
// create a frame
static JFrame f;
public static void main()
{
// create a frame
f = new JFrame("Menu demo");
// create a menubar
mb = new JMenuBar();
// create a menu
x = new JMenu("Menu");

// create menuitems
m1 = new JMenuItem("MenuItem1");
m2 = new JMenuItem("MenuItem2");
m3 = new JMenuItem("MenuItem3");

// add menu items to menu


x.add(m1);
x.add(m2);
x.add(m3);

// add menu to menu bar


mb.add(x);
// add menubar to frame
f.setJMenuBar(mb);
// set the size of the frame
f.setSize(500, 500);
f.setVisible(true);
}
}
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Output :

2. Program to add a menubar and add menuitems, submenu items and


also add ActionListener to menu items

Java

// Java program to add a menubar


// and add menuitems, submenu items and also add
// ActionListener to menu items
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class menu1 extends JFrame implements ActionListener {
// menubar
static JMenuBar mb;

// JMenu
static JMenu x, x1;

// Menu items
static JMenuItem m1, m2, m3, s1, s2;

// create a frame
static JFrame f;

// a label
static JLabel l;
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// main class
public static void main()
{
// create an object of the class
menu1 m = new menu1();

// create a frame
f = new JFrame("Menu demo");

// create a label
l = new JLabel("no task ");

// create a menubar
mb = new JMenuBar();

// create a menu
x = new JMenu("Menu");
x1 = new JMenu("submenu");

// create menuitems
m1 = new JMenuItem("MenuItem1");
m2 = new JMenuItem("MenuItem2");
m3 = new JMenuItem("MenuItem3");
s1 = new JMenuItem("SubMenuItem1");
s2 = new JMenuItem("SubMenuItem2");

// add ActionListener to menuItems


m1.addActionListener(m);
m2.addActionListener(m);
m3.addActionListener(m);
s1.addActionListener(m);
s2.addActionListener(m);

// add menu items to menu

x.add(m1);
x.add(m2);
x.add(m3);
x1.add(s1);
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x1.add(s2);

// add submenu

x.add(x1);

// add menu to menu bar

mb.add(x);

// add menubar to frame

f.setJMenuBar(mb);

// add label

f.add(l);

// set the size of the frame

f.setSize(500, 500);

f.setVisible(true);

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)

String s = e.getActionCommand();

// set the label to the menuItem that is selected

l.setText(s + " selected");


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Output:

Note : The following program might not run in an online compiler, please use
an offline IDE.

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