Question

I have a class called Game and a button in it with the following code

public Game(){
    (some code..)
    btn_start.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
                public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
                {
                               (some code..)
                    timer_task = new MyTask();
                               (some code..)
                }
            });
        }
}

My problem is that MyTask requires an object of type “Game” (for various reason).
How can i send to MyTask() the class that my actionListener method is in?
Is there such a thing in Java?

I tried using .this but it says that it refers to the ActionListener.

Answer 1

Try using Game.this instead

This basically tells Java to use the outter class reference of this instead