Public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)

Question

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
        if(e.equals("north"))
            e.getSource().getClass(CLI);
    } hi i have a class called CLI which handles all the methods. i am reating a gui. i have created the buttons and layout and added actionlisteners to them. i am having trouble assigning the method north() whic is of type static void to the button.
bassically when the button "north" is pressed i want to call the method North. i have been recommened to use the getSource() method from
import java.util.EventObject;
any ideas on where im going wrong?

Answer 1

Forget getSource, assign a separate anonymous ActionListener to each button, that way when actionPerformed is called you already know which button was pressed.
All you need to do (if you've put a handler method private void north() into your main class) is:
northButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
   public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)  {
         north();
  });(And, obviously, similarly for other buttons).
This creates an instance of an anonymous inner class and connects the button to it so that the actionPerformed method is called when the button is pressed. That, in turn, calls north(); Because it's an inner class it can use the methods of the class it's contained in.