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ProioxisPrime
ProioxisPrime

Reputation: 21

Java, change JLabel text on click

I'm new to this site and to Java programming and I'd greatly appreciate a bit of help. I'm trying to make a really simple program using SWING where the user clicks a button and a label's text changes from "Hello" to "Bonjour". These are the two errors I'm getting:

java:6: error: Lab4Part1 is not abstract and does not override abstract 
method actionPerformed(ActionEvent) in ActionListener
public class Lab4Part1 extends JFrame implements ActionListener {

java:25: error: cannot find symbol
label.setText("Bonjour");

Any ideas? My code is here:

 import javax.swing.*;
    import java.awt.*;
    import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
    import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;

    public class Lab4Part1 extends JFrame implements ActionListener {

    public Lab4Part1() {
        super("Lab 4 Part 1");
        Container contentPane = getContentPane();
        JPanel panel = new JPanel();
        contentPane.add(panel);
        setSize(400, 100);
        setVisible(true);

            JLabel label = new JLabel("Hello");
            panel.add(label);

            JButton button = new JButton("Translate to French");
            panel.add(button);
            button.addActionListener(this);
    }

    public void handle(ActionEvent event) {
    label.setText("Bonjour");
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Lab4Part1 myFrame = new Lab4Part1();
        myFrame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    }
    }

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1596

Answers (1)

Alex Cuadrón
Alex Cuadrón

Reputation: 688

You have to declare the JLabel in the class directly so you can access it from the handle function:

public class Lab4Part1 extends JFrame implements ActionListener {      

JLabel label; 

public Lab4Part1() {
    super("Lab 4 Part 1");
    Container contentPane = getContentPane();
    JPanel panel = new JPanel();
    contentPane.add(panel);
    setSize(400, 100);
    setVisible(true);

        label = new JLabel("Hello");
        panel.add(label);

        JButton button = new JButton("Translate to French");
        panel.add(button);
        button.addActionListener(this);
}

public void handle(ActionEvent event) {
label.setText("Bonjour");
}

Upvotes: 4

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