Anonymous Inner Classes

[Shawn Kuenzler]

I'm missing something with Anonymous Inner Classes. How are the methods within the AIC called? As in the example below. I think the point is to make an "instance subclass" if you will of the Popcorn class within the Food class so it can have its own pop() method. But how would you use that pop() method since you can't call the AIC?

   
public class Popcorn {
public void pop() {
System.out.println("popcorn");
}
}
 
class Food {
Popcorn p = new Popcorn() {
public void pop() {
System.out.println("anonymous popcorn");
}
};
}

[wise owen]

    
public class Food {
Popcorn p = new Popcorn() {
public void pop() {
System.out.println("anonymous popcorn");
};
};
public static void main(String[] args) {
Food f = new Food();
f.p.pop();
}
 
}
 

[ May 10, 2006: Message edited by: wise owen ]

[Shawn Kuenzler]

Oh, duh. I was only trying to instantiate the Popcorn object from outside the top level class and that's not possible. Thanks!