ActionListener in JMenuItem

Question

Hi!
I'm having problems with adding ActionListener on JMenuItem. I do it like this:
    JMenuItem saveMenuItem = new JMenuItem();
    saveMenuItem.addActionListener(new ActionListener()
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
        System.out.println("actionPerformed!");
        saveActionPerformed(e);       
    });No even when I select that menu item from my GUI, the action is not launched! Compiler does not give any errors, so it should be ok. Can anyone tell me what's the problem?? I'm using JDK 1.3.1-b24, btw.
/jasurakk

Answer 1

Hi jasurakka,
just reading the source code, nothing seems to be
wrong. May be there's a problem using an adapter class
as listener. I suggest you try to write an own class
implementing the ActionListener interface and then add
this class as ActionListener to your menu items.
Appears to me, that this is anyway the better
solution, cause you create only one ActionListener
listening for all the menu items you're adding instead
of creating a new listener instance for each menu
item. In the latter case, you have to add and check a
unique action command for each item.Yeah, that's pretty much what I had before... But when I couldn't make it work, I tried to add own actionlistener for all menu items. Unfortunately it didn't help at all:=( Might you have any other ideas of what to do?