INSTITUTE : UIE

DEPARTMENT : CSE
Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Science & Engineering)
Java Programming (20CST-218)
TOPIC OF PRESENTATION:

Sample swing programs

DISCOVER . LEARN . EMPOWER

 Lecture Objectives

In this lecture, we will discuss:

• Sample swing programs.

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Java Swing Example

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 program to construct 
// Menu bar to add menu items 
import java.awt.*; 
import javax.swing.*; 
import java.awt.event.*; 
public class menu extends JFrame { 
// menubar 
static JMenuBar mb; 
// JMenu 
static JMenu x; 
// Menu items 
static JMenuItem m1, m2, m3; 

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

// create menuitems 
m1 = new JMenuItem("MenuItem1");  // set the size of the frame 
f.setSize(500, 500); 
m2 = new JMenuItem("MenuItem2"); 
f.setVisible(true); 
m3 = new JMenuItem("MenuItem3");  } 
} 

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Output

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2. Program to add a menubar and add menuitems, submenu items and also add ActionListener to
menu items
// Java program 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; 

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// create a frame 
static JFrame f;  // create a menu 
// a label  x = new JMenu("Menu"); 
static JLabel l;  x1 = new JMenu("submenu"); 
// main class  // create menuitems 
public static void main()  m1 = new JMenuItem("MenuItem1"); 
{  m2 = new JMenuItem("MenuItem2"); 
// create an object of the class  m3 = new JMenuItem("MenuItem3"); 
menu1 m = new menu1();  s1 = new JMenuItem("SubMenuItem1"); 
// create a frame  s2 = new JMenuItem("SubMenuItem2"); 
f = new JFrame("Menu demo");  // add ActionListener to menuItems 
// create a label  m1.addActionListener(m); 
l = new JLabel("no task ");  m2.addActionListener(m); 
// create a menubar  m3.addActionListener(m); 
mb = new JMenuBar();  s1.addActionListener(m); 
s2.addActionListener(m); 
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// add menu items to menu 
x.add(m1);  // add label 
x.add(m2);  f.add(l); 
x.add(m3);  // set the size of the frame 
x1.add(s1);  f.setSize(500, 500); 
x1.add(s2);  f.setVisible(true); 
// add submenu  } 
x.add(x1);  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) 
// add menu to menu bar  { 
mb.add(x);  String s = e.getActionCommand(); 
// add menubar to frame  // set the label to the menuItem that is selected 
f.setJMenuBar(mb);  l.setText(s + " selected"); 
} 
} 

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 Summary:

In this session, you were able to :

• Study Sample swing programs.
 References:
Books:
1. Balaguruswamy, Java.
2. A Primer, E.Balaguruswamy, Programming with Java, Tata McGraw Hill
Companies
3. John P. Flynt Thomson, Java Programming.

Video Lectures :
https://youtu.be/FY3g4gGPhio

Reference Links:
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/java-swing-jmenubar/?ref=rp
http://zetcode.com/javaswing/basicswingcomponents/
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/java-swing-jpanel-examples/
https://www.javatpoint.com/java-swing
https://www.guru99.com/java-swing-gui.html
THANK YOU