How to model which JButtons was pressed Tic Tac Toe Game

Question

I already written 4 classes for the game all in the Java language. There are for launching the game, game Logic, J Buttons and the game Board. I created and added all 9 Buttons into a Grid Layout using a for loop. Each button has an actionListener.

How to model which J Button the user pressed. If I know that piece of information, I am sure I can use an array of characters to model the game logic.

Possible duplicate of [How to get X and Y index of element inside GridLayout?](http://stackoverflow.com/q/7702697/230513) — trashgod, Sep 08 '12 at 00:41

tenorsax · Answer 1 · 2012-09-08T00:46:30.280

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Not sure if that is the question, you could use setActionCommand methods to assign an action to a button. And then retrieve it from ActionEvent with getActionCommand(). See How to Use Buttons for more details and examples.

You also can use ActionEvent.getSource() to get the object that originated the event, ie the button that was pressed.

edited Sep 08 '12 at 00:46

answered Sep 08 '12 at 00:41

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I am testing the getSource method. I will think some more about this. Thanks Max and everyone! – Nicholas Sep 08 '12 at 01:01
eh .. no: use _Actions_, not actionListeners – kleopatra Sep 08 '12 at 06:39

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 08 '12 at 00:43

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Using separate AbstractAction listeners, it would look something like:

JButton[] buttons = new JButton[9];
for (int i=0; i < buttons.length; i++) {
    buttons[i] = new JButton("X or O here");
    buttons[i].addActionListener(new MyAction());
    add(buttons[i]);
}

answered Sep 08 '12 at 00:43

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ehhh .. you are on the right track, but stopping mid-ways: using an Action is _the_ thingy to do. But instead of adding it as mere actionListener, go full blast and do a _setAction_ – kleopatra Sep 08 '12 at 06:37

How to model which JButtons was pressed Tic Tac Toe Game

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