setAction and addActionListener

[Ash Kondhalkar]

hi,

If I have a button on the frame and I have added an actionListener and I have set the action using setAction as well. Which will be called first actionPerformed in ActionListener class for in Action class? Please let me know.

Thanks & Regards
Ashwin

[Maneesh Godbole]

Originally posted by Ash Kondhalkar:

If I have a button on the frame and I have added an actionListener and I have set the action using setAction as well. Which will be called first actionPerformed in ActionListener class for in Action class? Please let me know.

Java doesnt give any kind of guarantee about the sequence in which the registered listeners are notified in case of event generation.

Simplest thing for you would be to out println statements in both and see which is printed first.

[Campbell Ritchie]

. . . and why do you want an Action and an ActionListener on the same button in the first place?

[Ash Kondhalkar]

In our application, the actions on buttons are handled in the framework class, here in we are using SetAction!
Now due to this we are facing one issue, to overwrite that, we have added one action listener for the buttons.

Now what is happening is, the action listener action performed method is getting called first and then the actionPerformed method of Action class is getting called. I was surprised to see this as, the setAction was done on the button first and action listener was added later.


Regards
Ashwin

[Campbell Ritchie]

Read Maneesh Godbole's reply again. It depends how long the events take to travel through the system; if you want to overwrite or override the Action I think you should remove it and only have the Listener.