Actions and ActionListeners as parameters

Question

Hi everybody,
I want to overload a method so it can take either 2 Actions, 2 ActionListeners, or one of each. The issue with this is that I'd have to make 4 overloaded signatures and almost identical methods, like this:
method( action, action )
method( action, listener )
method( listener, action )
method( listener, listener )It seems like doing it this way would result in a lot of extra code, and hence become a real pain in the neck. So, I was curious, has anyone else either tried to do this before, or do you have any ideas as to how I might be able to do this more efficiently? When I looked at the API it didn't look like Actions and ActionListeners share a root class I can use.
Thanks,
Jezzica85

Answer 1

jezzica85 wrote:
Hi everybody,
I want to overload a method so it can take either 2 Actions, 2 ActionListeners, or one of each. The issue with this is that I'd have to make 4 overloaded signatures and almost identical methods, like this:
method( action, action )
method( action, listener )
method( listener, action )
method( listener, listener )
Well, if you want to support that then you are just going to have to do suffer through it, the only shortcut I can recommend is that your method(action, listener) and method(listener, action) are the same so you only have to implement 1 and just use the other as a entry point to call the one you wish to contain the code.