Attaching several buttons to one mouse listener

Question

Attaching several buttons to one mouse listener
I have an application which consists of a GUI form, "EntryForm," and "DataForm," a collection of variables.
Clicking EntryForm's submit button sends the entries to DataForm.
The submit button is attached to a mouse listener "SubmitButtonHandler"
My Question: How can I attach an arbitrary number, up to five instances of EntryForm to ONE mouse listener?
I have tried this:
     final SubmitButtonHandler sbh = new SubmitButtonHandler( ...
     entryForm1 = new EntryForm();
     dataForm1 = new DataForm();
          entryForm1.submitButton.addMouseListener( sbh );
     entryForm2 = new EntryForm();
     dataForm2 = new DataForm();
          entryForm2.submitButton.addMouseListener( sbh );
     entryForm3 = new EntryForm();
     dataForm3 = new DataForm();
          entryForm3.submitButton.addMouseListener( sbh );
     entryForm4 = new EntryForm();
     dataForm4 = new DataForm();
          entryForm4.submitButton.addMouseListener( sbh );
     entryForm5 = new EntryForm();
     dataForm5 = new DataForm();
          entryForm5.submitButton.addMouseListener( sbh );
     ...In the mouse listener I have tried these approaches:
     public void mouseClicked( MouseEvent e ) {
          if ( e.getSource() == entryForm1.submitButton ) {
               System.out.println( "Clicked: entryForm1.submitButton" );
               // send the data to dataform1
          } else if( e.getSource() == entryForm2.submitButton ) {
               System.out.println( "Clicked: entryForm2.submitButton" );
               // send the data to dataform2
     public void mouseClicked( MouseEvent e ) {
          if ( e.getSource() == submitButton ) {
               if( e.getSource() == entryForm1.submitButton ) {
               // send the data to dataform1
               } else if( e.getSource() == entryForm2.submitButton ) {
               // send the data to dataform2
          } else if ( e.getSource() == anotherButton ) {
               ...In both cases, only ONE form's button registers and even that is screwy.
Can this approach be fixed so that the mous listener can discern between the various forms, or do I have to use five sets of forms and mouse listeners?
Many thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi,
Button1.addMouseListener(ourMouseListener);
Button1.setActionCommande("This is button 1");
Button2.addMouseListener(ourMouseListener);
Button2.setActionCommande("This is button 2");
In the "ourMouseListener" event method, you use this...
if((((JButton)event.getSource()).getActionCommand()).equals("This is button 1"))
Source code for Button1
if((((JButton)event.getSource()).getActionCommand()).equals("This is button 2"))
Source code for Button2
JRG