How do I add a JMenuBar to a GridBagLayout

Question

Hi All,
I've got a GridBagLayout on a JFrame and want to add a menu bar to row 0. How do I do that? What I've tried to do is create a JPanel, add the JPanel (menuPanel) to my GridBagLayout in column 0, row 0, width 4 and height of 1. Then add the JMenuBar (bar) to menuPanel. I get the JPanel on the screen because it takes up space, but now File menu.
Please help.
// create JPanel
menuPanel = new JPanel();
constraints.fill = GridBagConstraints.BOTH;
constraints.anchor = GridBagConstraints.NORTHWEST;
constraints.weightx = 0;
constraints.weighty = 0;     
addComponent(menuPanel, 0, 0, 4, 1);  // object, row, column, width, height          
// set up  menu bar
fileMenu = new JMenu("File");
fileMenu.setMnemonic('F');
newSearch = new JMenuItem("New Search");
newSearch.setMnemonic('N');
fileMenu.add(newSearch);
exit = new JMenuItem("Exit");
exit.setMnemonic('x');
fileMenu.add(exit);
bar = new JMenuBar();
setJMenuBar(bar);
menuPanel.add(bar);Thanks,
Karl

Answer 1

You don't add a MenuBar to the layout, you add directly to the frame using
setJMenuBar(myMenuBar);HTH,
Radish21