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How to get boolean of JCheckBoxMenuItem?

I have this JCheckBoxMenuItem as a field:

private JCheckBoxMenuItem chckbxmntmDisableSending = new JCheckBoxMenuItem("Disable Sending");

I need to find out whether it is checked or not some time later, when doing something else (pressing the send button, basically). How do I get the value of this?

I've googled 'check value of JCheckBoxMenuItem', 'get boolean JCheckBoxMenuItem', others. I've also looked at the documentation, which says something about getState(), but I am under the impression that getState() only gives you whether it is selected by the mouse or not.

How do you get the current boolean value of a JCheckbox menu item? That is, whether it is checked or not?

Solution

  • According to Javadocs, the isSelected() method will also return a boolean value for its state.