How to use Action listener from Static method

Question

Hello,
I am begginer in Java. I am trying to add JButton and add ActionListener to it in the Java tutorial example (TopLevelDemo).
The problem i am facing are:
1. Since "private static void createAndShowGUI" method is static I cannot reference (this) in the method addActionLisetener when trying to add the JButton
JButton pr = new JButton("Print Report");
     pr.addActionListener(this);
2. If I make "private static void createAndShowGUI" a non static method then it does not run from main method giving me the error(cannot reference non-static).
3. Where do I put actionPerformed method?
I did not post the errors for all situations. Just asking how I can Add JButton and add ActionListener to it in the following code
Thanks
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
/* TopLevelDemo.java requires no other files. */
public class TopLevelDemo {
* Create the GUI and show it. For thread safety,
* this method should be invoked from the
* event-dispatching thread.
private static void createAndShowGUI() {
//Make sure we have nice window decorations.
JFrame.setDefaultLookAndFeelDecorated(true);
//Create and set up the window.
JFrame frame = new JFrame("TopLevelDemo");
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
//Create the menu bar. Make it have a cyan background.
JMenuBar cyanMenuBar = new JMenuBar();
cyanMenuBar.setOpaque(true);
cyanMenuBar.setBackground(Color.cyan);
cyanMenuBar.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(200, 20));
//Create a yellow label to put in the content pane.
JLabel yellowLabel = new JLabel();
yellowLabel.setOpaque(true);
yellowLabel.setBackground(Color.yellow);
yellowLabel.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(200, 180));
//Set the menu bar and add the label to the content pane.
frame.setJMenuBar(cyanMenuBar);
frame.getContentPane().add(yellowLabel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
//Display the window.
frame.pack();
frame.setVisible(true);
public static void main(String[] args) {
//Schedule a job for the event-dispatching thread:
//creating and showing this application's GUI.
javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
createAndShowGUI();
}

Answer 1

Here is one way of doing it...
JButton btn = new JButton("Click on Me");
btn.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
                          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae){
                            // do something
                            }});here we create an anonymous inner class ActionListener and add it to our button...
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