Adding JMenus to EditPanes

[Sasha Barazandeh]

I have a JPanel which consists of 4 EditPanes( each editpane has its own menu); how do I add them to my JPanel and then to my JFrame so that the menus will show up?

Thanks...

[Nathan Pruett]

Where is EditPane from? Is it a class you wrote yourself, or is it from some other source? (like jEdit, XMLMind, or JEditorPane?)

If the component doesn't have some built in capability to handle menus (and I don't believe any of the ones I linked do...), you're going to have to add the menu and the editor to another panel, and then add that panel to the frame (or another panel that gets added to the frame...).

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
 
public class MultiMenu
{
 
    public MultiMenu()
    {
        JFrame f = new JFrame("MultiMenu");
 
        buildGui(f.getContentPane());
 
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        f.setSize(640, 480);
        f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        f.setVisible(true);
    }
 
    private void buildGui(Container c)
    {
        c.setLayout(new GridLayout(2, 2));
        for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
        {
            c.add(createEditPane());
        }
    }
 
    private JComponent createEditPane()
    {
        JPanel p = new JPanel();
        p.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLoweredBevelBorder());
        p.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
 
        JEditorPane editor = new JEditorPane();
        p.add(new JScrollPane(editor), BorderLayout.CENTER);
 
        p.add(createMenu(), BorderLayout.NORTH);
        return p;
    }
 
    public JComponent createMenu()
    {
        JMenuBar menuBar = new JMenuBar();
 
        JMenu file = new JMenu("File");
        JMenuItem loadItem = new JMenuItem("Load");
        JMenuItem saveItem = new JMenuItem("Save");
        JMenuItem closeItem = new JMenuItem("Close");
        file.add(loadItem);
        file.add(saveItem);
        file.add(closeItem);
        menuBar.add(file);
 
        JMenu editMenu = new JMenu("Edit");
        JMenuItem undoItem = new JMenuItem("Undo");
        JMenuItem redoItem = new JMenuItem("Redo");
        JMenuItem allItem = new JMenuItem("Select All");
        JMenuItem findItem = new JMenuItem("Find");
        editMenu.add(undoItem);
        editMenu.add(redoItem);
        editMenu.add(allItem);
        editMenu.add(findItem);
        menuBar.add(editMenu);
 
        JMenu helpMenu = new JMenu("Help");
        JMenuItem aboutItem = new JMenuItem("About");
        JMenuItem helpItem = new JMenuItem("Help Contents");
        helpMenu.add(aboutItem);
        helpMenu.add(helpItem);
        menuBar.add(helpMenu);
 
        return menuBar;
    }
 
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        new MultiMenu();
    }
}