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You need to keep an object of type MenuItem around long enough so you
can call
addActionListener on it. So change

 subMenuOpen.add( new MenuItem( "Phone Listing..." ));
to
MenuItem temp = new MenuItem("Phone Listing...");
temp.addActionListener(this);
subMenuOpen.add(temp);



Eric Advincula wrote:

>
>
> Can someone look at this code and tell me what needs to be done to add
> an addActionListener
> for the following sub-menu:
>
>
> <snip>
>
> Menu menuFile, subMenuOpen;
> MenuItem menuExit, menuSchedule;
>
> MenuBar menuBarMain;
>    .
>    .
>    .
> menuFile = new Menu( "File" );
>    .
>    .
>    .
> // File -> Open sub-menu selection
> 1)  subMenuOpen = new Menu( "Open" );
>
> // File -> Open -> Phone Listing sub-menu selection
> 2)  subMenuOpen.add( new MenuItem( "Phone Listing..." ));
> 3)  menuFile.add( subMenuOpen );
>
> // File -> Open -> Schedule sub-menu selection
> 4)  subMenuOpen.add( new MenuItem( "Schedule..." ));
> 5)  menuFile.add( subMenuOpen );
>
> menuFile.addSeparator(); // Separator between menu items
>
> // File -> Exit menu selection
> menuExit = new MenuItem( "Exit" );
> menuExit.addActionListener( this );
> menuFile.add( menuExit );
>
>
> menuBarMain.add( menuFile );
>
> for numbers 1-5 how do you add an action listener when the names of
> the submenus are the
> same.
>
> By the way I'm using 1.1 of the jdk
>
> Thanks in advance for any help
>