Action question

Hi to all!
I have to write my own Action object that extends AbstractAction. I want to use this Action object to set the checked/unchecked state of a JMenuItem or a JButton of a toolbar.
I want to subclass my object from AbstractAction but I DON'T want to subclass every object using it (JMenuItem or JButton).
So I'm thinking the the best way to solve the problem was manage the selected state from within the Action object.
The action object contains its PropertyChangeListneners. For a JMenuItem or JButton the listeners are ButtonActionPropertyChangeListener objects. Those listeners contain the AbstractButton reference they belong, but ButtonActionPropertyChangeListener are contained in a private way, so i cannot access them.
Any suggestion?
thanks
Jacopo.

It appears that AbstractActionPropertyChangeListener, the superclass to ButtonActionPropertyChangeListener, has a method called getTarget(). You could use this method and cast it to an AbstractButton type and call the setSelected() method on it. As long as you know your AbstractAction is only being used for AbstractButton subclasses, you ought to be OK.
It would probably be wise to put in some type-checking using instanceof -- I think there may be some extra PropertyChangeListener's that Swing puts in there that aren't of type AbstractActionPropertyChangeListener. The other thing you may have to look out for is recursive calls to this. If you have three AbstractButtons w/ this listener, then as you programmatically set each one to be the same as the one that got clicked on, they may fire their own action listeners to do the same thing. Bad loop to be in.
I think the code would look something like this:
setPropertyChangeListenersValue(boolean b)
PropertyChangeListener[] pcl = this.getPropertyChangeListeners();
for(int i = 0; i < pcl.length; i++)
AbstractActionPropertyChangeListener aapcl = (AbstractActionPropertyChangeListener) pcl;
AbstractButton ab = (AbstractButton) aapcl.getTarget();
ab.setSelected(b);

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