enable and disable a menu item in a menu bar

[abhishek rathur]

i need to enable and disable a menu item in a menu bar,how to that.

[Maneesh Godbole]

Did you look at the the API docs for JMenuItem? Did you find any methods which would help you set the enabled state? (hint)

[abhishek rathur]

actually i am trying to do that in netbeans,but iam not getting .

[Maneesh Godbole]

Are you writing netbeans code or java code?
Do yourself a favor and chuck out those drag and drop style IDEs. Hand coding is best.

[Martijn van der Geest]

Create an Action, AbstractAction for example. (Action has string or icon or both).
Remember this action in a local variable.
Construct your JMenuItem from that action.
Call someAction.setEnabled(false) whenever you need.
Cheers