How to show report from a JButton

Question

I am developing a simple database application with Java as the front-end and MySQL as my back-end database. I am trying to use iReport. Now I have a Java form created using Netbeans IDE. I want to have a JButton in that form and when I press that button, I should get a report with some values displayed on it.

Kindly help me out in achieving that.

Answer 1

Simply add an ActionListener to the JButton:

JButton btn=new JButton("Do something");

btn.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
        @Override
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            // do something for button 
        }
});

If you want Netbeans to do it for you:

• Drag a JButton from the palette to your container (Select Windows > Palette to open the Palette if you don't see it. You use the Palette to drag and drop UI components to the design area)

• Simply double click on the JButton in question in the designer view and it will auto create an ActionListener and override actionPerformed. and in the method it creates is here you would do the work. It should generate something like:

  private void jButton1ActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
       //TODO: Add your handling code here:
  }