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JMenu

pulldown list of actions the user can select across the top of a JFrame. See the essay on menus [an error occurred while processing this directive] on how I think user-configurable, globally-configurable, menus should be implemented. In Swing you need three classes to set up a menu: JMenuBar, JMenu, and JMenuItem. Here is how you use it:

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In AWT you need: MenuBar, Menu, and MenuItem.

documentation on JMenuBar : available:

on the web at java.Sun.com
on J: in the JDK 1.4.2_04: J:\j2sdk1.4.2_04\docs\api\javax\Swing\JMenuBar.html
on J: in the JDK 1.5 beta: J:\Program Files\Java\j2sdk1.5.0\docs\api\javax\Swing\JMenuBar.html

documentation on JMenu : available:

on the web at java.Sun.com
on J: in the JDK 1.4.2_04: J:\j2sdk1.4.2_04\docs\api\javax\Swing\JMenu.html
on J: in the JDK 1.5 beta: J:\Program Files\Java\j2sdk1.5.0\docs\api\javax\Swing\JMenu.html

documentation on JMenuItem : available:

on the web at java.Sun.com
on J: in the JDK 1.4.2_04: J:\j2sdk1.4.2_04\docs\api\javax\Swing\JMenuItem.html
on J: in the JDK 1.5 beta: J:\Program Files\Java\j2sdk1.5.0\docs\api\javax\Swing\JMenuItem.html

AWT ¤ essay on menus ¤ Menu ¤ Swing

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