The event mouseclicked for menu item in swing does not work for me. I changed it to mousepressed and it works for me ... it's practically the same, but I wanted to know why this does not work in a menu item.
EDITED: the code was generated automatically by graphical interface. I decided to simply go for using ActionPerformed for all the events ..
The JMenuItem is subclass of AbstractButton . Generally it works well to simply implement ActionListener in your JFrame and react to your menu in actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) .
public class MiClase extends JFrame implements ActionListener{
...
// necesitas un campo en tu clase para la referencia desde actionPerformed
JMenuItem m1;
// en el constructor
public Miclase(){
m1 = new JMenuItem("menu 1");
m1.addActionListener(this);
...
}
...
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
if (e.getSource() == m1) hazAlgo();
...
}
To better control the context of the action, you can use getModifiers() and / or getId() of the ActionEvent (API in English) .