Creating a menu using packages

public static void main(String[] args) {

/**

* Setup the Graphical User Interface (GUI)

*

* @param appoTitle: title of the frame

* @param appoWidth: width of the frame

* @param appoHeight: height of the frame

* @param appoLaF: look and feel of the frame

*/

CreateFrame frame = new CreateFrame(appoTitle, appoWidth, appoHeight, appoLaF);

CreateMenuBar menu = new CreateMenuBar(appoWidth, 30);

frame.setJMenuBar(menu);

CreateFrame creates a frame -> this works ok !

CreateMenuBar should create the menubar, compiled ok !

I gey an error at the frame.setJMenuBar(menu); part.

What could I be doing wrong ?

appo_neo at 2007-6-29 2:46:16 >

I would like to use just these following lines in my main class to create the frame with the menu :

CreateFrame frame = new CreateFrame(appoTitle, appoWidth, appoHeight, appoLaF);

CreateMenuBar menu = new CreateMenuBar(appoWidth, 30);

here is the code for the CreateMenuBar :

package appo.gui;

/** 2001 3me me ia

*

* @author A. Postma aka aPPo neo

* -

* CreateMenuBar

* -

* This class will create & show a default new frame

*

* version 0.01 24.07.2001 - Create a basic menu bar

*/

// import Swing packages

import java.awt.*;

import java.awt.event.*;

import javax.swing.*;

import javax.swing.JMenu;

import javax.swing.JMenuItem;

import javax.swing.JCheckBoxMenuItem;

import javax.swing.JRadioButtonMenuItem;

import javax.swing.ButtonGroup;

import javax.swing.JMenuBar;

import javax.swing.KeyStroke;

import javax.swing.ImageIcon;

import javax.swing.border.Border;

import javax.swing.JTextArea;

import javax.swing.JScrollPane;

import javax.swing.JFrame;

// import Abstract Window Toolkit package

// Create and show the GUI

public class CreateMenuBar extends JMenuBar {

// Border references(top, left, bottom, right)

static Border BorderUp= BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(4,5,2,5);

static Border BorderDown= BorderFactory.createEmptyBorder(2,5,4,5);

static Border blackLine= BorderFactory.createLineBorder(Color.black);

static Border etchedLine= BorderFactory.createEtchedBorder();

static Border raisedBevel = BorderFactory.createRaisedBevelBorder();

static Border loweredBevel = BorderFactory.createLoweredBevelBorder();

static Border menuBorder= BorderFactory.createCompoundBorder

(BorderUp, etchedLine);

static Border panelBorder = BorderFactory.createCompoundBorder

(BorderDown, loweredBevel);

static JMenuBar menuBar = new JMenuBar();

/**

* Create a menu bar

*

* @param menuWidth: the width of the menu

* @param menuHeight: the height of the menu

*/

public CreateMenuBar(int menuWidth, int menuHeight) {

menuBar.setOpaque(true);

menuBar.setBorder(menuBorder);

menuBar.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(menuWidth, 30));

setJMenuBar(menuBar);

}

}

How do I have to change this or add code to it to get it working ? The problem is the setJMenuBar. I guess I have to refer to the existing frame, but how do I do that ? If I understand how this works I can rapidly start coding the rest of the package ... I just have to understand the basics of referring to the frame created with CreateFrame.

thanks again (in advance)

appo_neo at 2007-6-29 2:46:16 >