How to find a button source in AWT (calculator homework)

Question

We were asked to make a simple GUI calculator, I used getSource() to detect the buttons, cause that\'s what they taught us. It works by typing the 1st and 2nd value then cho

Answer 1

You can check if your source is a Button (not actually nessesary since you should know it is only called from a button) and then type cast to a button and use .getText()

String sourceText;
if (ae.getSource() instanceof Button) {
sourceText = ((Button)ae.getSource()).getText();
}