Help! How to create create a button from an event?

[Brendon Randall]

Hi all, im not too sure how to go about this, hopefully someone can help me.

What i need to do is create a button from an event with code behind it. I have a JFrame with carious text fields for a user to enter product information and save it to a database. What i would like to be able to do now is when the user saves this information to the databse a button will be created on a different Jframe with the name of the product and some some more handling behind that button when that is pressed. The reason i want to do this is that i am trying to make a TouchScreen point of sales application

Thanks very much

[Michael Dunn]

run this, type something into the textfield, press enter, click the added button to trigger its actionListener

    
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
class Testing
{
  public void buildGUI()
  {
    final JTextField tf = new JTextField("Type something then press ENTER");
    JFrame f1 = new JFrame();
    final JFrame f2 = new JFrame();
    f1.getContentPane().add(tf);
    f1.pack();
    f2.setSize(400,300);
    f1.setLocation(100,200);
    f2.setLocation(400,200);
    f1.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    f2.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    f2.setVisible(true);
    f1.setVisible(true);
    tf.requestFocusInWindow();
    tf.selectAll();
    tf.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae){
        f2.getContentPane().add(new DynamicButton(tf.getText()));
        f2.pack();
      }
    });
  }
  public static void main(String[] args)
  {
    SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable(){
      public void run(){
        new Testing().buildGUI();
      }
    });
  }
}
class DynamicButton extends JButton
{
  public DynamicButton(final String text)
  {
    super(text);
    addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ae){
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"The button's text is \""+text+"\"");
      }
    });
  }
}

[Brendon Randall]

Thanks alot Michael that is very helpful, but i am now thinking that i may design a new JFrame and set its layout to a flow design, then when the frame loads it just queries the DB for all products that are stored and creates buttons for all of them.