An application may have dozens, even hundreds of menu items.
Cramming these all into the init() method gets
confusing. It's customary to create separate methods that create
each individual menu and add it to the MenuBar. This
program creates two fairly standard menus, File and Edit.
import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;
public class MenuTester extends Applet {
public void init () {
Frame f = new Frame("Simple Window");
f.add("Center", new Label("Look at the Menus", Label.CENTER));
f.setSize(this.getSize().width, this.getSize().height);
f.setLocation(320,240);
MenuBar myMenuBar = new MenuBar();
myMenuBar.add(makeEditMenu());
myMenuBar.add(makeFileMenu());
f.setMenuBar(myMenuBar);
f.show();
}
private Menu makeEditMenu() {
Menu editMenu = new Menu("Edit");
editMenu.add("Undo");
editMenu.addSeparator();
editMenu.add("Cut");
editMenu.add("Copy");
editMenu.add("Paste");
editMenu.add("Clear");
return editMenu;
}
private Menu makeFileMenu(MenuBar mb) {
Menu fileMenu = new Menu("File");
fileMenu.add("New");
fileMenu.add("Open...");
fileMenu.addSeparator();
fileMenu.add("Close");
fileMenu.add("Save");
fileMenu.add("Save As...");
fileMenu.addSeparator();
fileMenu.add("Page Setup...");
fileMenu.add("Print");
fileMenu.addSeparator();
fileMenu.add("Quit");
return fileMenu;
}
}