Adding JMenu directly to a JPanel

Question

I am trying to add a JMenu directly to a JPanel, but it isn't functioning properly. It shows up, and looks the way I expect (with an arrow, like a sub-menu), but it doesn't display its popup menu when clicked. If I add the menu to a JMenuBar, and add that to the panel, it works, but the popup drops down below the button instead of to the right, and the arrow disappears. JMenuBar appears to be adding its own actions to every menu that it contains. JMenu is a descendant of AbstractButton, so I figured it would behave like one, but no luck.
Any help would be appreciated. By the way, I have thought of using a JButton and a JPopupMenu together, but that is not a very elegant solution. I am looking for a way to make the JMenu behave as if it were in a JMenuBar.

Answer 1

Hello Vijesh
See the code below and tell me whether it is useful ?
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.*;
class SwingA implements ActionListener
JPopupMenu pop;
JFrame frame;
JPanel panel;
JButton cmdPop;
     public static void main(String[] args)
     SwingA A=new SwingA();
     SwingA()
               frame=new JFrame("PopUp");
               frame.setSize(600,480);
               frame.setExtendedState(JFrame.MAXIMIZED_BOTH);
               pop=new JPopupMenu();
               cmdPop=new JButton("Click");
               cmdPop.addActionListener(this);
JMenuItem item = new JMenuItem("First");
JMenuItem item1 = new JMenuItem("Second");
pop.add(item);
pop.add(item1);
               panel=new JPanel();
               panel.add(cmdPop);
               frame.getContentPane().add(panel);
               frame.setVisible(true);
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent source)
pop.show(cmdPop, cmdPop.getWidth(), 0);
kanad