Getting my hands on var/methods of outer classes

Question

Hello,
I am learning java these days (at school) and i ran into a problem having an action listener as a inner class, how do i get access to methods and variables of the outer class from the inner class ??
for instance, this is my Outer class's constructor:
     public GBLEditor() {
          super("GridBagLayout Editor");
          ToolBar toolBar = new ToolBar();
          setJMenuBar(new MainMenuBar());
          getContentPane().add(toolBar, "North");
          Table tbl = new Table();
          getContentPane().add(new JScrollPane(tbl), "Center");
          getContentPane().add(new StatusPanel(), "South");
          MenuToolBarActionListener actionListener = new MenuToolBarActionListener();
          toolBar.getNewButton().addActionListener(actionListener);
          toolBar.getOpenButton().addActionListener(actionListener);
          toolBar.getSaveButton().addActionListener(actionListener);
          toolBar.getGenerateButton().addActionListener(actionListener);
          toolBar.getNewRowButton().addActionListener(actionListener);
          toolBar.getUpRowButton().addActionListener(actionListener);
          toolBar.getDownRowButton().addActionListener(actionListener);
          toolBar.getHelpButton().addActionListener(actionListener);
          setSize(770,300);
          setVisible(true);
So if the button newRowButton is pressed in my toolbar, i need to access the tbl object's method getTableModel() from inside the inner class below (as far as i can see now)
And this is my inner class:
class MenuToolBarActionListener implements ActionListener {
          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
any ideas?

Answer 1

Now your toolBar is local constructor's variable.
Just declare it outside the constructor and you'll have access to it from methods of inner class.
Something like this:
public class GBLEditor extends ... {
    private Table tbl;
    public GBLEditor() {
        tbl = new Table();
    class MenuToolBarActionListener implements ActionListener {
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
           tbl.getTableModel();
}