Making buttons for an ArrayList

Question

I am in a hurry as this program has to be handed in tomorrow so quick replys would be helpful.
I dont know how to make buttons in my GUI for an ArrayList and have it respond individualy with the name of the button i.e. i want to make it so that when you click on the drill button it will get take the label of that button and return it as a string. The problem is making the individual buttons that will respond to individual commands.
Im pretty sure that made no sense but im out of ideas.

Answer 1

Disregard the previos post i was doing it wrong.
Ive realised that the main problem is that is ignoring this
else if (event.getSource() == y)
                String text = ((JButton)event.getSource()).getText();
                game.playGUI("grab "+ text);
                frame.dispose();
                makeFrame();
            }