How do you get the JButton name

[bobby, morkos]

I have many buttons that have the name "btnName", however the name displayed within the button could be "save", "close", "add", "update", ...
I have somthing like this:
JButton btnName = new JButton();
btnName.setText("save");
When a click btnName, I want to get button name
If button name is "save" the preform action.

[Terence Doyle]

Hi,
I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for but I think you want to perform different actions depending on the button clisked.
If so , try this:

public class ButtonTest implements ActionListener {
.....
// include the button text in the constructor to save coding.
JButton button1 = new JButton("Save"); 
button1.setActionCommand( "save" );
button1.addActionListener( this );
JButton button2 = new JButton("Exit"); 
button2.setActionCommand( "exit" );
button2.addActionListener( this );
JButton button3 = new JButton("Cancel"); 
button3.setActionCommand( "cancel" );
button3.addActionListener( this );
....

// ActionListener actionPerformed() method
    public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent ae ) {
    String command = ae.getActionCommand();
    if( command.equals( "save" ) )
        // do save stuff.
    else if( command.equals( "exit" ) )
        // do exit stuff.
    else
        // do cancel stuff.
    }
}

Hope that was what you were looking for...
Bye,
[ January 28, 2002: Message edited by: Terence Doyle ]