Urgent.. How to add a menubar to a frame by reading a file

Question

Hi All,
I am involved in a project where in i need to add a menubar to the frame by reading a text file. The text file consists of all the Menu Items and subMenu items.This text file will be a editable file where-in the user can add his own menu-items.
i.e when i run the java program i should read the menu items from a file and then display those menuitems in the Menubar.
I am not getting the idea how i should proceed. Can any one help.
Thanks in advance.
Regards
Ravi Kumar

Answer 1

Sorry again - my use of i as an array index wasn't very clever. The post should have been as follows:
Hi,
You can read in the menu names from the file and add them fairly simply, with something like this:
JMenuBar jmb = new JMenuBar();
JMenu myMenu = new Jmenu("Custom");
jmb.add(myMenu);
in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("file.txt"));
JMenuItem [] menulist = new JMenuItem[MAXITEMS];
for (int j=0; j < MAXITEMS; j++) {
menulist[j] = new JMenuItem(in.readLine());
myMenu.add(menulist);
Then add the JMenuBar to the parent frame.
However, for the menus to be of much use, you'd need to add actionlisteners to them as well.
If you had a set of possible menu items, and it was just a question of which order the user's file defined them in, and which it used, you could then just test the name of each item in the file and assign an appropriate class of actionlistener to it, something like:
if(menuitem.getText().equals("Open")) {
menuitem[j].addActionListener(new OpenActionListener());
where you'd defined the OpenActionListener class somewhere else.
Hope this helps,
Neil
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