How to define function within for loop pls help?????

Question

Hi this is the problem i have a class, and within that class there is an actionPerformed function, in this class i also create an instance of another class, this other class also contains an actionPerformed function, which wis executed if a jButton has been pressed, when I try to place this actionPerfromed function within a for loop of a function i get an error saying illegal start of experssion, and that the class should be defined abstract as it does not define actionPerformed, when i take it out of the for loop it compliles fine, i need the function to be placed within the for loop because it needs to know the variable of the for loop, is there anyway around this? Thanks, below is the code:
public class DisplayTransitions extends JFrame implements ActionListener
public void add()
for(int i = 0; i < char2.size(); i ++)
mPanel.add(tim[i] = new JButton("Time"));
tim.addActionListener(this);
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae)
     if (ae.getSource() == tim[i])
          timeIncr();

Answer 1

This is your for loop using an anonymous inner class for the listener:
            for (int i = 0; i < char2.size(); i++) {
                mPanel.add(tim[i] = new JButton("Time"));
                tim.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae) {
if (ae.getSource() == tim[i]) {
timeIncr();
Learn more about anonymous inner classes from a good Java book or the Java tutorial (try http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/java/javaOO/QandE/nested-answers.html).