JMenu, passing mnemonic/ keyevent

Question

Hi
Im building a JMenu but as it has many items im using a function to make each JMenuItem. The function calls the JMenu constructor with the text and the image to be used. I want to pass the mnemonic but can't work out how to do it.
//example of function call
menu1.add(add("myText","myPic.gif"));
//what i need to send to function
menuItem.setMnemonic(KeyEvent.VK_T);also is it possible to do the same with accelerators, ie pass this info to the function
menuItem.setAccelerator(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(KeyEvent.VK_T, ActionEvent.ALT_MASK));thanks

Answer 1

Okay, it's still not clear to me what you're trying it write, but is it a method like the following?
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.net.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class Blank implements ActionListener {
    static JMenuItem add(JMenu menu, ActionListener al, String text, int mnemonic, String keyStoke, String iconURL) {
        JMenuItem item = new JMenuItem(text);
        if (al != null)
            item.addActionListener(al);
        if (mnemonic != 0)
            item.setMnemonic(mnemonic);
        if (keyStoke != null)
            item.setAccelerator(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke(keyStoke));
        try {
            if (iconURL != null)
                item.setIcon(new ImageIcon(new URL(iconURL)));
        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        return menu.add(item);
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
        System.out.println("your code here");
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        JMenuBar mb = new JMenuBar();
        JMenu menu = new JMenu("menu");
        add(menu, new Blank(), "blank", KeyEvent.VK_K, "control B", "http://forum.java.sun.com/im/ic_eye.gif");
        add(menu, null, "zip", 0, null, null);
        mb.add(menu);
        final JFrame f = new JFrame("Blank");
        f.setJMenuBar(mb);
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        f.pack();
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable(){
            public void run() {
                f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
                f.setVisible(true);
}