Listeners in controller class

[Cecilia Anderson]

Hi!
My ambition is to put all listeners in a ClientController class but I can�t see how to do it.
Normally I would have the listener as an inner class like this:
public class ClientView{
xxxxx
button.addMouseListener(new SearchListener());
xxxxx
class SearchListener extends MouseInputAdapter{
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent me){
button.setEnabled(false);
}
}
}
How can I put all listeners in the ClientController and how should the controller get access to the "button" ??? Does anybody have a good example??
//Cecilia

[Sai Prasad]

In your code, move the SearchListener to the controller from the view class and call setSearchListener(new SearchListener()) defined in the view from the controller constructor.

[Cecilia Anderson]

Hmm...still don�t get it
Should I put the SearchListener class as an inner class in the ClientController?? And if I do...
what should I add to button.addMouseListener(??)

Could you give an example??

[Mark Spritzler]

Ok, in your GUI class, the view you have a method like such.
fileExit is a MenuItem

 public void fileExitMenuAction(ActionListener action) {
        fileExit.addActionListener(action);
    } 

Then in your Controller to hook into the GUI so that it can run a method when an action occurs you have the following code.
frontEnd is the reference to the instance of the GUI class that the controller has.

 private void assignActionListeners(){
        frontEnd.fileExitMenuAction(new ActionListener(){
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
                System.exit(0);
            }
        });
} 

Hope that helps
Mark
[ May 10, 2002: Message edited by: Mark Spritzler ]