abstract classes

[droidus]

I am trying to create a simple action listener. I am getting an error that says:

GUI.buttonHandler is not abstract and does not override abstract method actionPerformed(ActionEvent) in ActionListener

my code:

public class GUI extends JFrame {

    private static final int WIDTH = 400;
    private static final int HEIGHT = 300;
    private JLabel name;
    private JTextField textField;
    private JButton submit;
    private buttonHandler btnHandler;

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        GUI gui = new GUI();
    }

    public GUI() {
        setTitle("A sameple");
        setSize(WIDTH, HEIGHT);
        setVisible(true);
        setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        name = new JLabel("Name: ", SwingConstants.LEFT);
        textField = new JTextField(10);
        submit = new JButton("Submit");
        btnHandler = new buttonHandler();
        submit.addActionListener(btnHandler);
        setTitle("Sample Title");
        Container pane = getContentPane();
        pane.setLayout(new GridLayout(4, 2));
        
        pane.add(name);
        pane.add(textField);
        pane.add(submit);
        
        setSize(WIDTH, HEIGHT);
        setVisible(true);
        setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    }
    private class buttonHandler implements ActionListener // it does not like buttonHandler here
    {
        public void actionPeformed(ActionEvent e)
        {
            textField.setText("Good!!!!(:");
        }
    }

If you could please explain what I am doing wrong, because I have done research, and I can't understand. It has to do with the subclass, or something of the sort?

[pbrockway2]

does not override abstract method actionPerformed(ActionEvent)

So check the spelling of the method you thought was actionPerformed().

Sometimes people try and guard against this by using the @Override annotation.

private class buttonHandler implements ActionListener
{
    @Override
    public void actionPeformed(ActionEvent e)
    {
        textField.setText("Good!!!!(:");
    }
}

@Override means "the following method must be declared in the super type". Written this way the compiler will alert you to the source of the problem because actionPeformed() is not declared in ActionListener.