Performing an action when an JMenuItem is clicked?

Question

So i have made a simple program with a basic menu at the top of the frame, Now i just need to put actions behind each JMenuItem. Im struggling to work the code out though, Here

Answer 1

You got it working, but you have another problem.

Don't do this:

hello.setDefaultCloseOperation(hello.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

When you close the pop-up frame, your entire JVM terminates. Consult JFrame.setDefaultCloseOperation javadocs for a more appropriate value.