Core Web Programming, Second Edition

13.23. Pop-up Menus

Pop-up menus are remarkably simple to use: allocate a PopupMenu, add some MenuItems to it, then watch for the pop-up trigger in a Component by checking mouse events with isPopupTrigger. When the trigger is received, call show to display the menu. When the menu is shown, an ActionEvent is triggered for a selected menu item.

Constructors

The two PopupMenu constructors are:

public PopupMenu()

public PopupMenu(String title)

The first constructor creates an untitled pop-up menu. The second constructor creates a pop-up menu with the specified title. However, most current Windows 95/98/NT implementations do not display the title.

Example: Applet Pop-up Menu

Listing 13.43 creates a pop-up menu in an applet. It then watches the mouse ...