I am trying to design a basic editor type of GUI in Java using Swing. I have a menu item named New
clicking on which I want a blank text area to fill up the GUI. My code is as folows :
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class UI extends JFrame {
private JMenuBar bar;
private JMenu menu;
private JMenuItem item;
private JTextPane tp;
public UI() {
setLayout(new FlowLayout());
bar = new JMenuBar();
setJMenuBar(bar);
menu = new JMenu("File");
bar.add(menu);
item = new JMenuItem("New");
menu.add(item);
item.addActionListener(new xyz());
}
public class xyz implements ActionListener {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
JTextPane tp = new JTextPane();
add(tp);
}
}
public static void main(String args[]) {
// do the rest of the stuffs
}
}
However, even on clicking on the New
, I do not get the textPane on the same frame. Can someone please explain.