Thread: JButton

When the following program is compiled:

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class del1 extends JFrame{
	public del1()
	{
		JPanel panel1=new JPanel();
		JButton button=new JButton("HI");
		button.addActionListener(new ButtonHandler());
		panel1.add(button);
	}
	private class ButtonHandler implements ActionListener
	{
		public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
		{
		panel1.remove(0); // line24
		panel1.add(new JButton("BYE")); // line 25
 
	}
}

the following errors are being shown: cannot find symbol variable panel 1 line 24 and 25
Can't the variables of the main class be accessed from the inner class?
And when I change the inner class into an anonymous class, the error message displayed during compilation is: declare panel1 as final
When I do it and run the program ( by creating its object ) nothing is being displayed

The variable panel1 is only in the scope of your constructor, in order for it to be in both your button handler's and your constructors scope, you will have to make it a global* variable, such as

public class Foo
{
  private Object someVariable;
  public Foo()
  {
     //Something with someVariable...
  }
  public void Bar()
  {
     //Something else with someVariable
  }
}

Also, with a glance-inspection of your code, after your button click you might want to remove the button
and add a JLabel instead.
Edit:
-> It would be better not to do panel1.remove(0) [Although I've never tried to do that before], but rather keep button as a global variable as well and use panel1.remove(button) OR use panel1.removeAll(), however the more probable reason it did not work before when you used an anonymous class is you did not call

panel1.revalidate();
panel1.repaint();

*I'm not sure if global is the right terminology