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Menus and Menu Bars

Menus allow you to organize many related functions in your application in one centralized, easy-to-use interface object. Although Menus come in many forms, the most common menu types are "menu bars."

Menu bars are particularly common and part of just about every application interface around today. Specifically, most applications will have a menu bar at the top of the screen that allows a user to choose among the major functions.

import java.awt.*;

public class MenuExample
  {
  public static void main(String[] args)
    {
    Frame baseFrame = new Frame();
    baseFrame.reshape(10,10,200,200);
    baseFrame.setTitle("Menu Example");

    MenuBar bar = new MenuBar();

    Menu fileMenu = new Menu("File");
    Menu editMenu = new Menu("Edit");
    Menu specialMenu = new Menu("Special");

    fileMenu.add(new MenuItem("Open"));
    fileMenu.add(new MenuItem("Save"));
    fileMenu.addSeparator();
    fileMenu.add(new MenuItem("Exit"));

    bar.add(fileMenu);
    bar.add(editMenu);
    bar.add(specialMenu);

    baseFrame.setMenuBar(bar);
    baseFrame.show();
    }
  }

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Selena Sol contributes to the JavaBoutique's Introduction to Java. Selena currently works for Barclays Capital in London, one of the leading global investment banks in Europe and has worked as a software developer for the National Center for Human Genome research, Microline Software, Neuron Data, and Electric Eye in Singapore. Selena is perhaps best-known for creating the Public Domain Web Script Archive (Extropia) and writing several books on Web Programming (Perl, CGI, Java).
Email: selena@extropia.com