Moving buttons and their listeners to separate classes

Question

Hi
I am trying to move out buttons and their listeners to separate classes, but when I do so, the program stops working. When I click on the button they dont react, probably the listeners doesent listens as the action performe prints out testprints.
In other words, I have huge troubles with do my gui object oriented. I doesent seem to be able to move out relevant listener methods and their components to separate classes.
Here is the code for one add button that I have tried to write in a separate class:
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.sql.SQLException;
import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import se.cs.DB.DBMovie;
import se.cs.inputvalidation.PatternsMovie;
import se.cs.main.Main;
import se.cs.main.MessageArea;
public class ButtonAddMovie {
     private DBMovie init = new DBMovie();
     private ComboBoxesMovie comboBoxesMovie = new ComboBoxesMovie();
     private TextFieldsMovie textFieldsMovie = new TextFieldsMovie();
     private PatternsMovie patternsMovie = new PatternsMovie();
     private MessageArea messageArea = new MessageArea();
     private Pattern patternYear;
     private Pattern patternSection;
     private Pattern patternExFields;
     private Matcher matcherYear;
     private Matcher matcherSection;
     private Matcher matcherTotalEx;
     private Matcher matcherExIn;
     private Matcher matcherExOut;
     private String genreString;
     // Initializes the button components
     private JButton addButton = new JButton("Add");
     public ButtonAddMovie() {
          listener();
     public void listener() {
          addButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
               public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                    addButton(e);
     public void addButton(ActionEvent e) {
          genreString = comboBoxesMovie.convertGenreIndex();
          regex();
     public void regex() {
          patternYear = Pattern.compile(patternsMovie.getYEAR_FIELD());
          patternSection = Pattern.compile(patternsMovie.getSECTION_FIELD());
          patternExFields = Pattern.compile(patternsMovie.getExFields());
          matcherYear = patternYear.matcher(textFieldsMovie.getTextYear());
          matcherSection = patternSection.matcher(textFieldsMovie.getTextYear());
          matcherTotalEx = patternExFields.matcher(textFieldsMovie
                    .getTextTotalEx());
          matcherExIn = patternExFields.matcher(textFieldsMovie.getTextExIn());
          matcherExOut = patternExFields.matcher(textFieldsMovie.getTextExOut());
          if (matcherYear.matches() && matcherSection.matches()
                    && matcherTotalEx.matches() && matcherExIn.matches()
                    && matcherExOut.matches()) {
               messageArea.getMessageArea().setText("");
               callInsertStatement();
               JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, this.messageDialog(),
                         "Movie added", JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
          else if (!matcherYear.matches()) {
               messageArea.getMessageArea().setText(
                         "The input for year field does not match.\n"
                                   + "You have to enter 4 digits.");
          else if (!matcherSection.matches()) {
               messageArea.getMessageArea().setText(
                         "The input for section field does not match.\n"
                                   + "You have to enter 1-4 digits.");
          else if (!matcherTotalEx.matches()) {
               messageArea.getMessageArea().setText(
                         "The input for total ex field does not match.\n"
                                   + "You have to enter 1.");
          else if (!matcherExIn.matches()) {
               messageArea.getMessageArea().setText(
                         "The input for ex in does not match.\n"
                                   + "You have to enter 1 digit.");
          else if (!matcherExOut.matches()) {
               messageArea.getMessageArea().setText(
                         "The input  for ex out does not match.\n"
                                   + "You have to enter 1 digits.");
     public void callInsertStatement() {
          try {
               init.insertStatement(textFieldsMovie.getTextTitle(),
                         textFieldsMovie.getTextYear(), genreString, comboBoxesMovie
                                   .convertGradeIndex(), textFieldsMovie
                                   .getTextSection(),
                         textFieldsMovie.getTextTotalEx(), textFieldsMovie
                                   .getTextExIn(), textFieldsMovie.getTextExOut());
          } catch (SQLException ex) {
               ex.printStackTrace();
     public String messageDialog() {
          int grade = comboBoxesMovie.getGradeBox().getSelectedIndex() + 1;
          String title = textFieldsMovie.getTitleField().getText();
          String year = textFieldsMovie.getYearField().getText();
          String section = textFieldsMovie.getSectionField().getText();
          String totalEx = textFieldsMovie.getTotalExField().getText();
          String exIn = textFieldsMovie.getExInField().getText();
          String exOut = textFieldsMovie.getExOutField().getText();
          return "\n" + "Title: " + title + "\n" + "Year: " + year + "\n"
                    + "Genre: " + comboBoxesMovie.convertGenreIndex() + "\n"
                    + "Grade: " + grade + "\n" + "Section: " + section + "\n"
                    + "Total ex.: " + totalEx + "\n" + "Ex. in: " + exIn + "\n"
                    + "Ex. out: " + exOut + "\n";
      * Gets the addButton
      * @return addButton
     public JButton getAddButton() {
          return addButton;
     }

Answer 1

I said "don't" cross-post and that the discussion has already been started in the "New To Java" forum.
If you have two discussions going on then people waste time answering because they don't know what has already been suggested.