How to test if my jradiomenubutton it's the value that i wanted

Question

What are the best way to test my return value if its the value that i selected, Somehow i'm stuck with the concept on how to get the value selected...

what my function does right now ,its that i added all the button that i wanted in my GUI and i return the value menu based on the button that i clicked.

private JMenu getOrdreMenu(){

    JMenu menu = new JMenu(MENU_ORDRE_TITLE);
    ButtonGroup group = new ButtonGroup();

    JRadioButtonMenuItem item = new JRadioButtonMenuItem(MENU_ORDRE_NSEQC);
             item.setSelected(true);
    group.add(item);
    menu.add(item);

    item = new JRadioButtonMenuItem(MENU_ORDRE_NSEQD);
    group.add(item);
    menu.add(item);

    item = new JRadioButtonMenuItem(MENU_ORDRE_FORMEC);
    group.add(item);
    menu.add(item);

    item = new JRadioButtonMenuItem(MENU_ORDRE_FORMED);
    group.add(item);
    menu.add(item);

    item = new JRadioButtonMenuItem(MENU_ORDRE_TYPENORMAL);
    group.add(item);
    menu.add(item);

    item = new JRadioButtonMenuItem(MENU_ORDRE_TYPEINVERSE);
    group.add(item);
    menu.add(item);

    item = new JRadioButtonMenuItem(MENU_ORDRE_DISTANCEC);
    group.add(item);
    menu.add(item);

    add(menu);
    return menu;



}

Answer 1

"What are the best way to test my return value if its the value that i selected, Somehow i'm stuck with the concept on how to get the value selected.."

Since they're in a ButtonGroup you don't need to check if one is selected. Every time one is selected, it will be the only one selected. So all you need to do is add an ActionListener

You don't seem to ever add a listener to the menu items. See this example, where I add a listener

import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.ButtonGroup;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JMenu;
import javax.swing.JMenuBar;
import javax.swing.JRadioButtonMenuItem;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;

public class RadioMenus {

    private static final String MENU_ORDRE_TITLE = "Tilte";
    private static final String MENU_ORDRE_NSEQC = "NSEQC";
    private static final String MENU_ORDRE_NSEQD = "NSEQD";
    private static final String MENU_ORDRE_FORMEC = "FORMEC";

    public RadioMenus() {
        JMenuBar menubar = new JMenuBar();
        menubar.add(getOrdreMenu());

        JFrame frame = new JFrame("Menu");
        frame.setJMenuBar(menubar);
        frame.setSize(300, 300);
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        frame.setVisible(true);

    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable(){
            public void run() {
                new RadioMenus();
            }
        });
    }

    private JMenu getOrdreMenu() {
        MyMenuListener listener = new MyMenuListener();

        JMenu menu = new JMenu(MENU_ORDRE_TITLE);
        ButtonGroup group = new ButtonGroup();

        JRadioButtonMenuItem item = new JRadioButtonMenuItem(MENU_ORDRE_NSEQC);
        item.addActionListener(listener);
        group.add(item);
        menu.add(item);

        JRadioButtonMenuItem item1 = new JRadioButtonMenuItem(MENU_ORDRE_NSEQD);
        item1.addActionListener(listener);
        group.add(item1);
        menu.add(item1);

        JRadioButtonMenuItem item2 = new JRadioButtonMenuItem(MENU_ORDRE_FORMEC);
        item2.addActionListener(listener);
        group.add(item2);
        menu.add(item2);

        return menu;
    }

    public class MyMenuListener implements ActionListener {
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            JRadioButtonMenuItem menuItem = (JRadioButtonMenuItem)e.getSource();
            System.out.println(menuItem.getActionCommand());
        }
    }
}