How to access the ActionListener

[jboy]

Hi,

I have two classes and each class has an ActionListener class within it.

class 1:
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private class Listener implements ActionListener
    {   public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
            {type = e.getActionCommand();}}
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class 2:
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private class AddListener implements ActionListener
{   public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
        {  Video video = new Video(?);    }}
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My problem is that I don't know how to refer to the ActionListener class of class 1 from the ActionListener class of class 2, so that I can put the "type"
from the first ActionListener into the "Question mark" in the second ActionListener.

Thanks in advance.

[r035198x]

You can't. The video is declared inside the method so it is only visible inside that method only. You can't even access it from class 2 itself when not inside that method. Relook your design.

[jboy]

The only other way that I think of doing this is to get rid of the ActionListener in class 1, and I have to store the Button that was clicked in a method and access that method from the ActionListener in the class 2. But I don't know how to go about finding out which button is clicked without using any listener if we follow what I just described.
Thanks.

[Fubarable]

class 1:
private String type = "";
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private class Listener implements ActionListener
    {   public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
            {type = e.getActionCommand();}}

public String getType() {
  return type;
}
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class 2:
private Class1 class1Reference;

public void setClass1(Class1 class1Reference) {
  this.class1Reference = class1Reference;
}
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private class AddListener implements ActionListener
{   
  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {  
    String type = class1Reference.getType();
    Video video = new Video(type);    
  }
}
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