ActionListener on an Image

Question

I have a few Images moving around on a Canvas.
The Images are of class Image
I have 2 buttons, turn left and turn right which when clicked make one of the Images turn left or right.
The buttons have actionListeners attached to them.
How could I make it so when one of the images is clicked the buttons would cause the clicked on image to move accordingly?
at the moment I'm simply doing this in the button actionPerformed method:
images.get(0).travelX = 5;
where images is an arraylist containg all Images
The actual contents is more complicated, but you get the idea.
Is it possible to do what I want??

Answer 1

It's just the way I've written the code - I have a list of names of the images that are shown on the canvas.
Each name is in it's own jpanel.
The names are retrieved from a variable stored in each Plane instance - this instance is where the image is created.
The code is very long so I can't post, and I'm finding it hard to explain, as various classes are interacting with each other.
Basically when the name in the jpanel is clicked, the mouselistener checks the name against each instance of Plane (which contains the Image) if it matches, an int variable is changed accordingly to the ArrayList element that contains the Plane.
This integer is then used to decide which element of the ArrayList of Planes is chosen - e.g. 3
So, i do planeArray.get(3)
now I have certain image selected, when the turn right button is pressed, the movement values of the plane stored at 3 are changed from within the actionlistener.