function scope?

[Shane Thornton]

Here is my code that doesn't seem to work.

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

public class SimpleGUI implements ActionListener
{
public static void main(String[] args){
SimpleGUI gui = new SimpleGUI();
gui.go();
}
public void go(){
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
JButton button = new JButton("Submit");
button.addActionListener(this);

frame.getContentPane().add(button);
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
frame.setSize(300,300);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event){
button.setText("Whoa, I've changed!");
}
}

Please run that yourself. It seems that the OBJECT button is out of scope from the actionPerformed function... Any ideas how I can fix this?

[Ken Blair]

Yes, it is out of scope. You have declared button as a local variable, it will only be visible within that method. One way of fixing your code is to make the button a field of SimpleGUI.