ActionListener illegal start of expression

[Jerry Goldsmith]

Hello,

I'm attempting to use an action listener to read the contents of a text
field into a string when the enter key is pressed. I am getting an
"illegal start of expression" error on the line:
"public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)"
at compile time. I have included the code below.

What am I doing wrong? This is probably an obvious error to the Java pros out there; but, I am still fairly new at this. Thanks.

import javax.swing.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.awt.*;

public class Jerry_Test implements ActionListener
{

public static void start()
{

JFrame parentFrame = new JFrame();
JLabel new_label = new JLabel("New part number");
JTextField new_text = new JTextField(50);
JPanel new_panel = new JPanel();
new_label.setLabelFor(new_text);
new_panel.add(new_label);

JOptionPane new_pane = new JOptionPane(new_panel);
new_pane.setWantsInput(true);

JDialog new_dialog = new_pane.createDialog(parentFrame, "Test dialog");
new_dialog.setModal(false);
new_dialog.setVisible(true);
new_dialog.toFront();

new_text.addActionListener(ActionListener);
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
{
String new_name = new_text.getText();
});

}

public static void stop()
{
}

}

[Craig Wood]

Change this
new_text.addActionListener(ActionListener);
to this
new_text.addActionListener(ActionListener)
{

[Jerry Goldsmith]

Craig,

Thanks for the suggestion. It makes sense but when I try it I get a
';' expected error, on the line below
"new_text.addActionListener(ActionListener)", where I add the additional
"{".

This seems to jibe with the example code I've been looking at. I can't figure out what is wrong.

[Tim LeMaster]

If you want to create an anonymous inner class implementing the ActionListener interface it should look something like

    
new_text.addActionListener(new ActionListener()
{
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
{
}
});