Global Object: ActionPerformed method

Question

Hi...
I have created a GUI class and in I've passed in an account object, to the class. Now I was looking to use the actionPerformed method, behind the swing JButton to access the class and display the returned stings from the methods in the Account object.
I can't pass in the object directly into the actionPerformed method, but is there a way to make the object that was passed in GUI a global variable... so the method inside the GUI class can access an object (in this case it happens to be account)
thanx norman

Answer 1

One way is to make the ActionListener an anonymous inner class that calls a method of the enclosing class. That, and let the enclosing class have an instance var of type Account.
public class MyGUI {
  private Account account;
  private JButton button;
  public MyGUI() {
    button.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        button_actionPerformed(e);
  public void setAccount(Account account) {
    this.account = account;
  void button_actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    // do something with account
}