thank you for your answer,
i got a JTextArea where all my JMenuItems write information from executed methods (those methods are executed if needed inside the "(if e.getSource==menuitemX {.. blah blah call method... window.append("found...");...} ).
i understand the advantage of your second suggestion but i can't understand how i am going to do it.
as i said i have never done it before and i don't know what should i look for.
can you please give me informations (sites, links, books, keywords, etc) for both statements ?
thank you again!
//edit// because i don't know this thing, i thought that a solution for faster executing some menuitem (pressed) to add keybinding (ctrl+1, etc) but i want to create a "All" menuItem so it can execute the menuitems i want.