ActionListener/AbstractAction

Question

Hello everyone,
Can someone tell me the best choice for action-event handling in swing?
Extends AbstractAction or implements ActionListener
Thanks for clarifying

Answer 1

abstractAction implements actionListener so if you extend it then you are infact implementing actionListener...
but AbstractAction has values like tooltip, text, icon, and others, and you can construct JButton or menus from AbsractAction,
this is good when you lets say you have a JMenuItem that dose somthing and you want the same thing to be on a JToolBar then just add the same AbsractAction to bot the JMenuItem and JToolBar then you will not have multiple
if(event.getSource()==button1)so i preffer the AbstractAction but i use it like this..
//Menu -> Help -> About
      AbstractAction about=new AbstractAction(){
         public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){aboutAction();}
      Utils.setActionValues(about,"About",
            new ImageIcon("about.gif"),KeyEvent.VK_A,
            "Shows the about dialog",null,true);
//the Utils method is like this
    * Sets the values of the input action
   public static void setActionValues (Action action, String name, Icon icon,
      int mnemonic, String description, KeyStroke accelerator,
      boolean enabled)
      action.putValue(Action.ACCELERATOR_KEY, accelerator);
      action.putValue (Action.MNEMONIC_KEY, new Integer (mnemonic));
      action.putValue (Action.NAME, name);
      action.putValue (Action.SHORT_DESCRIPTION, description);
      action.putValue (Action.SMALL_ICON , icon);
      action.setEnabled (enabled);
   }i would then use it like this
JMenu menu=new JMenu();
menu.add(about);
JToolBar toolBar =new JToolBar();
tooBar.add(about);hope this helps... you