Jlabel and Jbutton class with no instance variable-help

[Fily55]

Hello,
I am making a program that adds a button and a label to a GUI. Initially the text of the label is set to 0. When you click the button, the text of the label increments and then changes to 1. Then 2, then 3 and so on. I got this program to work with an instance variable but I've to get it to work with no instance variables! I was wondering maybe you have to pass a variable onto public void actionPerformed() but I can't figure out how. This is my code:

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

public class Button {

public Button() {
createFrame();
}

private void createFrame() {
JButton button= new JButton("1-1");
JLabel label = new JLabel("0");
JFrame frame = new JFrame( "Buttons Grid" );
GridLayout grid = new GridLayout( 0,1 );
frame.setLayout(grid);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation( JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE );
frame.setSize(200, 200);
frame.setVisible(true);

addComponents(frame.getContentPane(), button, label);

}

private void addComponents(Container contentPane, JButton button, JLabel label) {
button.addActionListener(new ButtonListener(label));
label.setHorizontalAlignment( SwingConstants.CENTER );
contentPane.add(button);
contentPane.add(label);

}
private class ButtonListener implements ActionListener {
JLabel label;
private ButtonListener(JLabel label){
this.label=label;
}
@Override
public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent event ) {
int clicks;
clicks = Integer.parseInt(label.getText() );
clicks++;
label.setText(""+clicks+"");
}
}

public static void main( String[] args ) {
Button bal = new Button();
}

}

As you can see in the inner class I have : JLabel label;
That can't be there. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

[Fubarable]

Hello,
I am making a program that adds a button and a label to a GUI. Initially the text of the label is set to 0. When you click the button, the text of the label increments and then changes to 1. Then 2, then 3 and so on. I got this program to work with an instance variable but I've to get it to work with no instance variables! I was wondering maybe you have to pass a variable onto public void actionPerformed() but I can't figure out how. This is my code:

....

As you can see in the inner class I have : JLabel label;
That can't be there. Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

Please define precisely what you mean by "get it to work with no instance variables"? No instance variables in the outer class, Button? No instance variables in the private inner class, ButtonListener? There has to be an accessible reference to the JLabel object somewhere for this to work. In fact if you post the actual assignment requirements, we'd rid ourselves of a bit of ambiguity.

Also, to get the best help here, you'll want to repost your code, but post formatted code using code tags. To learn how to use code tags, please see the first link in my signature links below.

[Fily55]

Oops sorry.

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">

public class Button {

public Button() {
createFrame();
}

private void createFrame() {
JButton button= new JButton("1-1");
JLabel label = new JLabel("0");
JFrame frame = new JFrame( "Buttons Grid" );
GridLayout grid = new GridLayout( 0,1 );
frame.setLayout(grid);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation( JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE );
frame.setSize(200, 200);
frame.setVisible(true);

addComponents(frame.getContentPane(), button, label);

}

private void addComponents(Container contentPane, JButton button, JLabel label) {
button.addActionListener(new ButtonListener(label));
label.setHorizontalAlignment( SwingConstants.CENTER );
contentPane.add(button);
contentPane.add(label);

}
private class ButtonListener implements ActionListener {
JLabel label;
private ButtonListener(JLabel label){
this.label=label;
}
@Override
public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent event ) {
int clicks;
clicks = Integer.parseInt(label.getText() );
clicks++;
label.setText(""+clicks+"");
}
}

public static void main( String[] args ) {
Button bal = new Button();
}

}
</script>

The assignment is to get this working which I did. The challenge is you can't use any instance variables whatsoever. There can't be any in the outer class or the inner class.

The assignment is to make a JButton and a JLabel. When the button is clicked the text in the JLabel will increment by 1. The initial text of the JLabel is 0. But the challenge is you can't use any instance variables anywhere.

Thanks