Re: Confusion about Action members

[email protected] wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Can Action objects work like this?
> 
> public class MyMenuItem extends JMenuItem {
> 
>   public static Action MyAction = SomeStaticClass.getAction();
> 
> }
> 
> 
> where SomeStaticClass has a selection of general actions that can be
> used by many other client classes, eg we could declare a public class
> MyButton similarly and use the same action.
> 
> MyMenuItem is registered for the tag <menuitem> and MyButton for <button>
> 
> This way I wanted the Actions specified in the XML as
> 
> <menubar> <menu name='file'>
>           <menuitem name='open' Action='MyAction'/>
>           </menu>
> </menubar>
> 
> to work similarly to one declared for a button.

IMHO it is much simpler than that. I usally use a class like this:

public class MyAction extends AbstractAction {
	public static Action getInstance() {
		return myInstance;
	}
	...
}

Then you may specify
<button initclass="MyAction"/>
<menuitem initclass="MyAction"/>

Hope it helps and I understood your requirements...

Greetings from dark and late Berlin,

Frank

> 
> I guess my question boils down to whether the reflection mech. is looking
> only for public instance members, or also static ones.. UPDATE doesn't seem
> to work even if I remove static..
> 
> thanks!
>   Nandan
> 
> 
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