如何将ActionListener添加到AWT MenuItem？

Question

Thanks for your attention! PLease help a newbie out :)

Current Problem:

Need to change a color of the line when clicking on a MenuItem with the name of the color.

Here is my code for changing the color of the line. When i create the menuItems i also crete the actionListener for them:

private void CreateMenu()
{
    menuBar = new MenuBar();
    menu = new Menu("File");
    mSave = new MenuItem("Save");
    colorSubMenu = new Menu("Choose Color...");

    String[] colors = {"red","yellow","green","blue","purple","black"};
    for(int i=0;i<colors.length;i++)
    {
        final int ii = i;
        MenuItem m=new MenuItem(colors[i]);
        colorSubMenu.add(m);
        colorSubMenu.addActionListener(
                                    new ActionListener()
                                            {
                                                @Override public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
                                                {
                                       THIS LINE DOESN'T WORK ===>> color = Color.getColor(colorSubMenu.getItem(ii)));
                                                }
                                             }
                                        );
    }

    menu.add(mSave);        
    menu.add(colorSubMenu);
    menuBar.add(menu);        
    setMenuBar(menuBar);
}

But... it doesn't work! please give an advise. i am running out of ideas.

Will be glad to hear anything:) thanks once again!

UPDATE:

want to change this part to something more elegant and that actually works:

colorSubMenu.addActionListener(
   new ActionListener()
   {
      @Override 
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
      {
THIS LINE DOESN'T WORK ===>> color = Color.getColor(colorSubMenu.getItem(ii)));
      }
   }
);

Answer 1

Color#getColor relys on using colors from the System properties. These probably will not match the colors from the Color array in the question. You can use reflection instead

@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    Field field = Class.forName ("java.awt.Color").getField (e.getActionCommand());
    Color color = (Color) field.get (null);
    // use color...
}