Anonymous classes

[Anonymous]

Hi, i have these two classes,
My Question is how do i access the foo method in the anonymous class? Its not getting invoked!!or should i have to make it a local inner class?
<pre>
public interface MyTest
{
public void foo();
}

public class Outer
{
public void aMethod()
{
new MyTest()
{
int i =10;
public void foo()
{
System.out.println("Success" +i);
}
};
}
public static void main(String args[])
{
Outer o = new Outer();
o.aMethod();
}
}
</pre>
In case of anonymous eventlisteners, how does the public void ActionPerformed(ActionEvent e) method get executed when there's no explicit call to it?
[This message has been edited by Paul Wheaton (edited August 20, 2000).]

[paul wheaton]

I hope you don't mind that I added a little indenting so I could read your sample.
You have made an anonymous class. To access the foo method, you would need to pass your anonymous class to something or make some sort of public reference to it.

[daryl olson]

Regarding anonymous inner classes as event listeners, in code such as the following:
Button b = new Button( "Pick me" )
b.addActionListener( new ActionListner() {
public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent e ) {
System.out.println( "You picked me" );
}
});
The addXxxxxListener() call stores a reference to the anonymous listener in the component (ie Button b). Then when an XxxxEvent occurs on the component, the event is passed to the registered listener's event method (ie actionPerformed()) using the reference stored in the component.

[Madhav Lakkapragada]

To put it to work, I just posted an example code in this
msg. check it out.
Hope it helps.
Regds.
- satya

[Anonymous]

Paul,
How should i do that. can u please elaborate?