How to make a JMenu have Button behaviour in a JMenuBar

java, jmenu, jmenubar, swing

Solution

Not completely sure what you're asking...

But `JMenuBar` inherits from `Container` - if you'd rather add a `JButton` to it than a `JMenu` you can simply call -

JMenuBar menuBar = ....
JButton myButton = ....
menuBar.add(myButton);

Problem

I was trying to make a JMenu behave like a JButton but I'm having some problems and hopefully someone here can help! I've added a MenuListener to the JMenu item with this but I cant get the popup menu/focus to leave to enable me to properly click the JMenu repeated times to trigger this function and i was hoping someone could tell me what i'm doing wrong. Thanks. ``` public void menuSelected(MenuEvent e) { ... // do stuff here code JMenu source = (JMenu)e.getSource(); source.setSelected(false); source.setPopupMenuVisible(false); } ```

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