How to set Action Listener to 3 buttons

Question

I\'m trying to make a stopwatch with three buttons, \"Start\", \"Pause\", and \"Stop\". My instructor only taught us how to set Action Listeners to two buttons. How do I set u

Answer 1

All you need to add is this after the buttons creation.

startButton.setActionCommand("Start");
stopButton.setActionCommand("Stop");
pauseButton.setActionCommand("Pause");

and in actionPerformed method use this.

switch(actionEvent.getActionCommand())
{
// cases
}