Pass variables to ActionListener in Java

Question

I have something like the code below:

    for(int i=0;i<10;i++){
        button=new JButton(buttons[i]);
        button.addActionListener(new ActionListen         


        

Answer 1

The variable i is in fact in the scope of the ActionListener, but since you're trying to use a local variable in an inner class, the variable must be final. So, you could use a final variable for this:

for(int i=0;i<10;i++){
    final int index = i;
    button=new JButton(buttons[i]);
    button.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            setPage(index);
        }
    });
    menu.add(button);
}