It is easy in Swing to create menus. First, you create a menu bar to hold each menu. A menu is the little area that drops down out of the menu bar.
//create the menu bar JMenuBar menuBar = new JMenuBar(); // Create a menu JMenu menu = new JMenu("Tools"); menuBar.add(menu); // Create a menu item JMenuItem hacksaw = new JMenuItem("Hacksaw"); hacksaw.addActionListener(someActionListener); menu.add(hacksaw); // Install the menu bar in the frame frame.setJMenuBar(menuBar);
The main thing to note here is that clicking menu items creates an action event that you need to handle with an ActionListener implementation. There is a good example of using menus in the Garage Text Editor Toolkit example.
