JButton setColor problems

[brachaalizah]

On click, the background of the button is supposed to cycle between 6 different colors. Not sure what is going wrong here. It will compile, but give "Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NullPointerException" on click.

private class ColorButtonListener implements ActionListener
	{
		public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
		{
			if (colorCounter==0)
			{
				button1.setBackground(Color.ORANGE);
				colorCounter++;
			}
			else if (colorCounter==1)
			{
				button1.setBackground(Color.YELLOW);
				colorCounter++;
			}
			else if (colorCounter==2)
			{
				button1.setBackground(Color.CYAN);
				colorCounter++;
			}
			else if (colorCounter==3)
			{
				button1.setBackground(Color.LIGHT_GRAY);
				colorCounter++;
			}
			else if (colorCounter==4)
			{
				button1.setBackground(Color.GRAY);
				colorCounter++;
			}
			else if (colorCounter==5)
			{
				button1.setBackground(Color.BLACK);
				colorCounter=0;
			}
			
		}

[Fubarable]

You never tell us which line causes the exception, but I'm guessing it's one of the lines where you try to set the color of button1, and that button1 is in fact null. You can check this out by having

if (colorCounter==0) {
   System.out.println("button1 is null: " + (button1 == null));
   button1.setBackground(Color.ORANGE);
   colorCounter++;
}

And then if it is in fact null, go back and try to see where you think that you are initializing this JButton.