What is the common way to program action listeners?

Question

I just started to learn how to use action listeners. To my understanding it works in the following way:

1. There are some classes which contains \"addActionLis

Answer 1

The most common way to handle this - judging from my own personal experience - is to simply create an anonymous inline class. Like this:

listenedObject.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
    @Override
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
        // Your action handling code in here
    }
});

And often I've seen people place a call out to a method of the object containing the listenedObject. For example, in a Dialog that has a button:

myOkayButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
    @Override
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
        okayButtonPressed();
    }
});

Then later in the dialog class:

private void okayButtonPressed() {
    // Do what we need to do
}