JMenuitem - click - action - Java

Question

I have written code to perform click event on JMenuItem but that is not firing when I am debugging. (I know that I am not supposed to ask these questions in this forum but I am new to this forum)

public class ClsMenu extends JMenuItem implements ActionListener {

  JTextArea output;
  JScrollPane scrollPane;

  public ClsMenu(String text)
  {
    super(text);
    addActionListener(this);
  }

  public JMenuBar createMenu()
  {
    JMenuBar menuBar;
    JMenu menuFood,menuDrinks,menuParty;
    JMenuItem foodItem;


    menuBar=new JMenuBar();


    menuFood=new JMenu("Food");
    foodItem=new JMenuItem("Pizza");
    menuFood.add(foodItem);
    menuBar.add(menuFood);
    return menuBar;
  }
  public void createGUIandShow()
  {
    JFrame frame = new JFrame("Restuarant");
    frame.setJMenuBar(createMenu());
  }

  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    System.out.println("item clicked"+e.getActionCommand());
  }
}

In this call, I have created an object

public class ClsMenuDisp {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    ClsMenu menu=new ClsMenu("testitem");
    menu.createGUIandShow();
  }
}

Answer 1

You need to add your ActionListener to the menu items you are adding the the JMenu. What you are doing is make a menu item that has a action listener. Then using a instance method of that menu item to create a completely unrelated JMenuBar/JMenu/JMenuItem that is then attached to the JFrame.