Changing NAME property of Action object

Question

Hi everyone,
I have a JButton and JMenuItem both associated with the same Action object so that they both have the same text and perform the same action. The action alternates between starting and stopping a background process, and I want my button and menu item to update their text accordingly.
The only way I can see to do this is to use putValue("NAME", "Start"). I can get the source of the event, which appears to return the button I press, but (AbstractButton)(e.getSource()).setText() returns a syntax error, and I'm unsure that would change the text of both components anyways. Also, calling validate on the JFrame that contains the button, as I do in the code below, has no effect.
Any help anyone can give will be greatly appreciated. Here is my code:
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
public class StopAction extends AbstractAction {
        private FrmMain main;
        public StopAction(FrmMain main, String text){
                super(text);
                this.main = main;
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                if (main.isBackgroundThreadsRunning()) {
                        main.stopThreads();
                        this.putValue("NAME", "Start");
                        main.validate();
                } else {
                        main.startThreads();
                        this.putValue("NAME", "Stop");
                        main.validate();
}

Answer 1

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