Change button name in a for-loop

Question

Hi all,
I would like to implement a 'for loop' to add buttons to my panel depending on the value of max_number.
The postion of these buttons will also change with each passing of the loop.
The code below implements this. But when I click the buttons they only return the action listener of the last button drawn. This is because the JButton my_button is reused in each pass through the loop.
What I need is to change the name of the button on each passing of the loop so that I create a new button each time with it's own unique action listener.
Is there a way of adding/appending the value of 'i' to the button name each time the for loop is run?
For example
When i = 0 -> JButton my_button0 = ...
When i = 1 -> JButton my_button1 = ...
etc, etc,
for (i = 0; i < max_number; i++)
JButton my_button = new JButton(Integer.toString(i));
my_button.addActionListener( new ActionListener()
{ public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
{ do something depending on the value of 'i' }});
addComponent(my_button, (2*i+1) , 4 , 1 , 1); //add newly created button to position x = (2*i+1), y = 4
} //end for

Answer 1

What?! Are you talking about the variable name? You can't, shouldn't, needn't use different variable names in a for loop, since the variables "expire" each time the loop is run. For instance:
for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
   //j doesn't exists even if this loop is on its 10'th lap!
   int j = i;
}And you will have a problem with the ActionListener as well, since it depends on the "i" variable. "i" can't be accessed from an anonymous class unless it has been declared final, in which case it won't work for you.
So: the my_button variable will contain a new JButton each time!
Nille