Question

I created 26 JButton in an anonymous actionListener labeled as each letter of the alphabet.

for (int i = 65; i < 91; i++){     final char c = (char)i;     final JButton button = new JButton('' + c);     alphabetPanel.add(button);     button.addActionListener(         new ActionListener () {             public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {                 letterGuessed( c );                 alphabetPanel.remove(button);             }         });         // set the name of the button         button.setName(c + ''); }  

Now I have an anonymous keyListener class, where I would like to disable the button based off of which letter was pressed on the keyboard. So if the user presses A, then the A button is disabled. Is this even possible given my current implementation?

Answer 1

Could you not simply declare an array of 26 JButton objects at class level, so that both listeners can access them? I believe anonymous inner classes can access class variables as well as final variables.