Re: [JmenuItem] menuItem when clicking on menu item
Daniel Moyne wrote:
I have created the same ActionListener on a collection of menu items in a loop like this :
for (int i = 0; i < NUMBER_OPENED_FILES + 1; i++) {
name =.....
menuItem = new JMenuItem(name);
menuItem.setName("menuItem_" + String.valueOf(i));
menuItem.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
menuItemActionPerformed(evt);
}
});
}
In my method actionPerformed I want to know which menu has been clicked ; I know it is ridiculous because normally :
(1) you attach an ActionListener at each menu item,
(2) and in general you do not care about the menu item clicked.
I can process the string evt to extract the identifier of the menu item clicked as the desired information in recorded in evt ; any other ideas ?
Regards.
You can override JMenuItem to include a index number (the OO folks will
cringe though) or you can put them in an ArrayList and get their index
that way. The latter is probably best.
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