Need help creating a menu bar

[Bucs44]

I'm very green when it comes to writing code and I'm trying to create a menu bar and pull down menus. The menu bar contains three options: File, Edit and Help.

The File menu contains four options: New, Open, Close and Send To. Among these four, the Send To entry itself is a menu with the following three options: Mail Recipient, Exchange Server and Floppy Disk

The Edit menu has the following entries: Cut, Copy and Paste.

The Help menu has two options: Contact Us and About Software

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[RedSon]

Have you looked at eclipse's visual dialog creation tools? They will help you create your menus and other windows. As for getting all the code to make it do what you want, thats another story.

[RedSon]

Here is their Graphic Modeling Framework. It is the plugin that you will need to use to allow eclipse to help you create model your GUIs.

http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/gmf/downloads/index.php

[RedSon]

Here's a picture of what you are looking for.

http://www.eclipse.org/screenshots/images/VisualEditor-KDE.png

[JosAH]

I'm very green when it comes to writing code and I'm trying to create a menu bar and pull down menus. The menu bar contains three options: File, Edit and Help.

The File menu contains four options: New, Open, Close and Send To. Among these four, the Send To entry itself is a menu with the following three options: Mail Recipient, Exchange Server and Floppy Disk

The Edit menu has the following entries: Cut, Copy and Paste.

The Help menu has two options: Contact Us and About Software

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'd skip all those visual tools if I were you. The problem description almost
naturally leads to the following code:

JMenuBar createMenuBar() {
   JMenuBar bar= new JMenuBar();
   bar.add(createFileMenu());
   bar.add(createEditMenu());
   bar.add(createHep[Menu());

   return bar;
}
JMenu createFileMenu() {
   JMenu menu= new JMenu("File");

   menu.add(createNewMenuItem());
   menu.add(createOpenMenuItem());
   menu.add(createCloseMenuItem());
   menu.add(createSendToMenu());

   return menu;
}
...
// etc.etc. etc.

kind regards,

Jos

[RedSon]

I'd skip all those visual tools if I were you. The problem description almost
naturally leads to the following code:

JMenuBar createMenuBar() {
   JMenuBar bar= new JMenuBar();
   bar.add(createFileMenu());
   bar.add(createEditMenu());
   bar.add(createHep[Menu());

   return bar;
}
JMenu createFileMenu() {
   JMenu menu= new JMenu("File");

   menu.add(createNewMenuItem());
   menu.add(createOpenMenuItem());
   menu.add(createCloseMenuItem());
   menu.add(createSendToMenu());

   return menu;
}
...
// etc.etc. etc.

kind regards,

Jos

Fine, make it easy. See if I care :P

The reason I was suggesting those visual tools is because it will be easier to make rich and complicated interfaces with them instead of creating them all programatically .

[Bucs44]

I'd skip all those visual tools if I were you. The problem description almost
naturally leads to the following code:

JMenuBar createMenuBar() {
   JMenuBar bar= new JMenuBar();
   bar.add(createFileMenu());
   bar.add(createEditMenu());
   bar.add(createHep[Menu());

   return bar;
}
JMenu createFileMenu() {
   JMenu menu= new JMenu("File");

   menu.add(createNewMenuItem());
   menu.add(createOpenMenuItem());
   menu.add(createCloseMenuItem());
   menu.add(createSendToMenu());

   return menu;
}
...
// etc.etc. etc.

kind regards,

Jos

I'm still not understanding the main part - JMenu createFileMenu( ) {
JMenu menu= new JMenu("File");

Does this create a pull down menu?

[JosAH]

I'm still not understanding the main part - JMenu createFileMenu( ) {
JMenu menu= new JMenu("File");

Does this create a pull down menu?

Yup, and you add that menu to the menu bar. You can add menus or menu
items to the menu itself. Read the API documentation for those classes.

kind regards,

Jos