Re: ActionListener
Knute, i'm not sure i understand. I'm trying to make the index variable
availble to the other methods. The idea is that this index can be used to
either go forward or backward depending on which ActionListener is called.
Is there a way to do this with an interger value? You may have already
explained this and i'm too thick to see, so please have patience.
Art
"Knute Johnson" <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com> wrote in message
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Art Cummings wrote:
Hello all,
I'm trying to understand how to invoke an ActionListener but maintain a
variable that will be available to another ActionListener called
"previous". The problem is how to have a variable persists between calls.
I want to populate the ArrayList everytime the user hits next or previous
and use my variable to position it at the correct index.
As you no doubt can tell, i'm relatively new to java.
Thanks for any help
private class nextButtonListener implements ActionListener
{
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
{
int hold=0;
int index=0;
String name="";
ArrayList names = new ArrayList();
names = getNames();
name = names.get(index).toString();
System.out.println(name);
System.out.println(index);
index = index++;
}
}
private class previousButtonListener implements ActionListener
{
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
{
int hold=0;
int index=0;
String name="";
ArrayList names = new ArrayList();
names = getNames();//populates ArrayList
name = names.get(index).toString();
System.out.println(name);
System.out.println(index);
index = index++;
}
}
Make the variables instance or class variables.
class MyClass {
final ArrayList list = new ArrayList();
list is visible to the entire class including subclasses.
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