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How to have a class which contains all the UI elements for a JFrame?


so i've got two classes one which handels creating the JFrame and the other that would load the menu bar on the JFrame the code is like this:

import java.awt.Toolkit;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import java.awt.Dimension;

import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
public class Main extends JFrame{
       static JFrame F = new Main();
static UI ui = new UI();
public Main()
{
    ImageIcon img = new ImageIcon("icon.png");
    setTitle("JFrame title");
    setJMenuBar(ui);
    setUndecorated(true);       
    //maximize window
    setExtendedState(getExtendedState() | MAXIMIZED_BOTH);
    setVisible(true);
    setIconImage(img.getImage());
}   
public static void main(String[] args)
{
}

} and then the UI code:

import javax.swing.JMenuBar;
import javax.swing.JMenu;
import javax.swing.JMenuItem;
public class UI extends JMenuBar{

JMenu menu  = new JMenu("File");
JMenuItem i1,i2;

public UI() {
i1 = new JMenuItem("Save");
i2 = new JMenuItem("Load");
menu.add(i1);
menu.add(i2);
add(menu);
}

public static void main (String[] args) {

    }
}

When i compiled no errors showed up i ran the code and i had only the JFrame, and no errors have i done any


Solution

  • UI is still not initialized when called in setJMenuBar.

    public class Main extends JFrame {
        static JFrame F = new Main();
    
        public Main() {
            UI ui = new UI();
            ImageIcon img = new ImageIcon("icon.png");
            setTitle("JFrame title");
            setJMenuBar(ui);
            setUndecorated(true);
            //maximize window
            setExtendedState(getExtendedState() | MAXIMIZED_BOTH);
            setVisible(true);
            setIconImage(img.getImage());
        }
    
        public static void main(String[] args) {
        }
    }