Attaching A Single Action Listener To All Buttons

Question

I have a program with many buttons, all of which will be performing the same function. I was wondering if there was a way to attach a single listener to all existing JButton

Answer 1

There are many ways to do it.

Do you control creation of these buttons? If yes, create a factory and attach a listener before returning the object

Otherwise, you may traverse swing tree and check for instance of JButton and attach on a match

You can also think about ActionMap/InputMap approach where an action can be stored and invoked based on the focus policy.

Also, you may extend JButton....