Hi everyone,
I am creating a GUI and i want to be able to open a dialog box from a menuItem, so that when the user clicks on the menuItem the dialog appears.
I was wondering how i could do this using event handlers. Which ones would i need to use.
The menuItem is calledcustomerEdit and the dialog is callededitCustomer.
Im a complete newbie at this, so any help is greatly appreciated
Thanks in advance
Carl
Hi,
there is the method addActionListener at the MenuItem (s. http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/awt/MenuItem.html) class. You have to add this to your menuitem (customerEdit.addActionListener(this)). this is a pointer on the frame class that is the base class of your application. Then you have to add the method actionPerformed to your frame-class. If somebody clicks on the item the actionPerformed is called.
Good luck!
could you show me where to place it in my code?
this is part of the code for my menu bar
salesMenuBar.setBackground(new java.awt.Color(237, 234, 218));
customerMenu.setBackground(new java.awt.Color(236, 233, 216));
customerMenu.setMnemonic('C');
customerMenu.setText("Customer");
customerEdit.setBackground(new java.awt.Color(255, 255, 255));
customerEdit.setMnemonic('E');
customerEdit.setText("Edit/Remove...");
customerEdit.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
customerEdit(evt);
}
});
customerMenu.add(customerEdit);
salesMenuBar.add(customerMenu);
managementMenu.setBackground(new java.awt.Color(236, 233, 216));
managementMenu.setMnemonic('M');
managementMenu.setText("Management");
managementLogin.setBackground(new java.awt.Color(255, 255, 255));
managementLogin.setMnemonic('L');
managementLogin.setText("Login...");
managementMenu.add(managementLogin);
salesMenuBar.add(managementMenu);
helpMenu1.setBackground(new java.awt.Color(236, 233, 216));
helpMenu1.setMnemonic('H');
helpMenu1.setText("Help");
helpContent1.setBackground(new java.awt.Color(255, 255, 255));
helpContent1.setMnemonic('n');
helpContent1.setText("Contents");
helpMenu1.add(helpContent1);
helpAbout.setBackground(new java.awt.Color(255, 255, 255));
helpAbout.setMnemonic('A');
helpAbout.setText("About");
helpMenu1.add(helpAbout);
salesMenuBar.add(helpMenu1);
setJMenuBar(salesMenuBar);
pack();
}
private void customerEdit(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
// Add your handling code here:
}
Thanks again
Carl
you did it already, fill only the part of
private void customerEdit(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
Dialog editDialog = new Dialog(this);
editDialog.show();
}
don't know if you have to write your own dialog...
