Simple MenuBar question

[TVN1981]

Hi,

I am trying to create a class called MenubarItem that display some simple
menu's ... But I don't why why when I use this class on my main program,
nothing would show up. I am very new on the gui design stuffs. I think
I
am missing some components. But not sure. (*Note that I can make it work
if I use everything in 1 class, but now I want to seperate the menu interface
into a a different class and I can't get them work along)

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Here's my MenuBarItem class (on a seperate file called MenuBarItem.java)


public class MenuBarInterface extends JMenu {
private JMenu fileMenu;
private JMenuItem openItem ;

public MenuBarInterface()
{
fileMenu = new JMenu ("File");
openItem = new JMenuItem ("Open") ;

fileMenu.add(openItem);
add(fileMenu);
}
}

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Here's my main program, it's called TheApp and inside the file TheApp.java

public class TheApp extends JFrame {
public TheApp()
{
super ("title");

MenubarInterface bar = new MenuBarInterface();

setSize(550,550), setVisible(true);
}

public static void main(String args[])
{
TheApp app = new TheApp();
app.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
}
}

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tia

[Paul Clapham]

You don't have any code that tells your frame to use your MenuBarInterface.
Have a look at this tutorial:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutor...ents/menu.html

And have a look at several dozen similar tutorials:

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutor...swing/TOC.html

PC2

"TVN1981" <cryptopo@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to create a class called MenubarItem that display some simple
> menu's ... But I don't why why when I use this class on my main program,
> nothing would show up. I am very new on the gui design stuffs.