Java Swing Menu addBooleanActionTo(Container menuOrToolBar, Action action)

Description

Creates a JCheckBoxMenuItem for a menu or JToggleButton for a tool bar

License

Open Source License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
menuOrToolBar	the menu or tool bar
action	the action

Declaration

public static void addBooleanActionTo(Container menuOrToolBar, Action action) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*ww w  .ja va2s  .c om*/
 * Copyright 1997-2013 Fabien Michel, Olivier Gutknecht, Jacques Ferber
 * 
 * This file is part of MaDKit.
 * 
 * MaDKit is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 * 
 * MaDKit is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 * 
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with MaDKit. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */

import java.awt.Component;
import java.awt.Container;

import java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException;
import java.lang.reflect.Method;

import javax.swing.Action;

import javax.swing.JCheckBoxMenuItem;
import javax.swing.JMenu;

import javax.swing.JToggleButton;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Creates a {@link JCheckBoxMenuItem} for a menu or {@link JToggleButton} for a
     * tool bar
     * 
     * @param menuOrToolBar the menu or tool bar
     * @param action the action
     * 
     */
    public static void addBooleanActionTo(Container menuOrToolBar, Action action) {
        Method addButton;
        try {
            addButton = Container.class.getMethod("add", Component.class);
            if (menuOrToolBar instanceof JMenu) {
                addButton.invoke(menuOrToolBar, new JCheckBoxMenuItem(action));
            } else {
                final JToggleButton jToggleButton = new JToggleButton(action);
                jToggleButton.setText(null);
                addButton.invoke(menuOrToolBar, jToggleButton);
            }
        } catch (NoSuchMethodException | SecurityException | IllegalAccessException | IllegalArgumentException
                | InvocationTargetException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

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