Actions

Actions are a popular addition to Swing

• Bundles commonly used procedure and properties in a common Class
• Especially useful when application needs to call a function from multiple sources e.g. Save data to disk from Menu Item, Save Button, Dialog action (after a quit) etc. (see Section  for a full program example)

To see how this multiple action can be achieved consider the following:

• We create a Save Menu Item
• We create a ToolBar Button
• Both invoke the same save event

Action being invoked by two events