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Re: java menu events
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ron van Hoof)
Mon Oct 30 11:21:14 1995
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 09:14:42 -0500
From: rvhoof@nynexst.com (Ron van Hoof)
To: jsanders@excelsior-73.Eng.Sun.C.sun.com
Cc: java-interest@java.sun.com
Hoi Jim,
It's very simple. You have to do the same thing as with
buttons. Just match the string text.
if ("New".equals(arg)) {
System.out.println("Creating new system!");
}
else if ("Open".equals(arg)) {
System.out.println("Opening system!");
}
...
Ron
>
> In a java application, how do you capture menu events?
> Below is an application with a menu bar and a couple
> of menus. There are also a couple of buttons
> in the app. The "action()" routine captures the events
> from buttons in the app, but not the menus.
>
> Anybody have sample application code that deals
> with events from menubar menus?
> -Jim
>
>
> // create menubar with two menus
>
> import java.awt.*;
> import java.applet.Applet;
>
> public class menuBarTest extends Applet
> {
>
> public menuBarTest()
> {
> setLayout(new BorderLayout());
> Panel p = new Panel();
> p.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
> add("South", p);
> p.add(new Button("quit"));
> p.add(new Button("Doit"));
>
> }
>
> public boolean action(Event evt, Object arg)
> {
> System.out.println("Event detected: " + arg);
> if ("quit".equals(arg))
> {
> System.exit(0);
> }
> if ("Doit".equals(arg))
> {
> }
> return true;
> }
> public static void main(String args[])
> {
> Frame f = new Frame("menuBarTest");
> menuBarTest menuBarTest_test = new menuBarTest();
> menuBarTest_test.init();
> menuBarTest_test.start();
>
> MenuBar mb = new MenuBar();
> Menu h = new Menu("Help");
> h.add("General Help");
> h.add("Even More Help");
> h.add("Extra Special Help");
> mb.add(h);
> mb.setHelpMenu(h);
>
> Menu h2 = new Menu("File");
> h2.add("New");
> h2.add("Open");
> h2.add("Close");
> h2.add("Save");
> h2.add("Exit");
> mb.add(h2);
> f.setMenuBar(mb);
>
>
> f.add("Center", menuBarTest_test);
> f.resize(300, 300);
> f.show();
> }
> }
> -
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