How can I get a jButton from its name?

Question

If i know just the name of a jButton, how can I get the button itself so I can set actionlistener and other stuffs?

I have a string which is the name of a jButton and i want to perform actions on the jbutton with that name if it exists?

Answer 1

If i am right you want to get the name given to jbutton ie.,close or login etc.,I have retrieved the name of the text using getText()

Then try this

   JButton jb=new JButton();
     String name=jb.getText();
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent ev){
    if(ev.getActionCommand().equals(name){
      //This is the action of jButton.   
    } 
 }

Answer 2

I have a string which is the name of a jButton and i want to perform actions on the jbutton with that name if it exists?

Your question is complete confusing, but to set name of a JButton or any other component we use component.setName(String name) function and to get the name of the component we use component.getName() function. Where component is any instance of JComponent . JButton is also a JComponent .

This is not preferable to me to rely on event.getActionCommand() to detect a source component of an event, rather try to make use of event.getSource() instead.