Thread: help with actionlistener for my calculator; button are created within a for loop for number 1 to9

i help some help with coding the action listener for my button (btBody) which create button displaying 1 to 9 in a nested for loop; the button should allow the user to click on them and to display the number clicked on in a JTextField;

my code;

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
 
public class EX_7_2 extends JFrame 
    {
        public EX_7_2()
        {
            setLayout(new BorderLayout(5, 10));
 
            // create p1
            JPanel p1 = new JPanel();
            p1.setLayout(new BorderLayout(5, 10));
 
          p1.add(new JTextField(), BorderLayout.NORTH);
 
          JPanel p3 = new JPanel();
 
         p3.setLayout(new GridLayout(1, 3, 5, 5));
         JButton btBackspace = new JButton ("Backspace");
         btBackspace.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
         btBackspace.setForeground(Color.RED);
 
         JButton btCE = new JButton ("CE");
         btCE.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
         btCE.setForeground(Color.RED);
 
         JButton btC = new JButton ("C");
         btC.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
         btC.setForeground(Color.RED);
 
          p3.add(btBackspace);
          p3.add(btCE);
          p3.add(btC);
 
          p1.add(p3, BorderLayout.CENTER);
 
 
 
          // create p4
 
          JPanel p2 = new JPanel();
          p2.setLayout(new GridLayout(4, 3, 5, 5));  
 
          int num;
          for (int iRow = 3; iRow>0; iRow--)
          {
              for (int iCol = 1; iCol<4; iCol++)
              {
                  num = 3*(iRow-1) + iCol;
 
                  JButton btBody = new JButton("" + num);
                  btBody.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
                  btBody.setForeground(Color.BLUE);
                  p2.add(btBody);
 
                   btBody.addActionListener(new ActionListener() 
                   {
                    @Override /**HandleItemEvent*/
                    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) 
                        {
 
 
                        }                     
 
 
                  });
              }           
          }
 
         JButton btZero = new JButton ("0");
         btZero.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
         btZero.setForeground(Color.BLUE);
 
         JButton btPlusMinus = new JButton ("+/-");
         btPlusMinus.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
         btPlusMinus.setForeground(Color.BLUE);
 
         JButton btDot = new JButton (".");
         btDot.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
         btDot.setForeground(Color.BLUE);
 
         p2.add(btZero);
          p2.add(btPlusMinus);
          p2.add(btDot);
 
 
         JPanel p5 = new JPanel();
         p5.setLayout(new GridLayout(4, 2, 5, 5));
 
         JButton btBack = new JButton ("/");
         btBack.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
         btBack.setForeground(Color.RED);
 
         JButton btsprt = new JButton ("sprt");
         btsprt.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
         btsprt.setForeground(Color.BLUE);
 
         JButton btStar = new JButton ("*");
         btStar.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
         btStar.setForeground(Color.RED);
 
         JButton btPercentage = new JButton ("%");
         btPercentage.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
         btPercentage.setForeground(Color.BLUE);
 
         JButton btMinus = new JButton ("-");
         btMinus.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
         btMinus.setForeground(Color.RED);
 
         JButton btOnex = new JButton ("1/x");
         btOnex.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
         btOnex.setForeground(Color.BLUE);
 
         JButton btPlus = new JButton ("+");
         btPlus.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
         btPlus.setForeground(Color.RED);
 
         JButton btEquals = new JButton ("=");
         btEquals.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
         btEquals.setForeground(Color.RED);
 
         p5.add(btBack);
           p5.add(btsprt);
            p5.add(btStar);
             p5.add(btPercentage);
              p5.add(btMinus);
               p5.add(btOnex);
                p5.add(btPlus);
                 p5.add(btEquals);
 
                 JPanel p4 = new JPanel();
                 p4.setLayout(new BorderLayout(5, 10));
                 p4.add(p2, BorderLayout.CENTER);                
      p4.add(p5, BorderLayout.EAST);          
 
      add(p1, BorderLayout.NORTH );
      add(p4, BorderLayout.CENTER);
 
 
 
    }             
 
 
public static void main(String[] args) {
 
        EX_7_2 frame = new EX_7_2();
        frame.setTitle("Calculator");
        frame.setSize(350, 375);
              frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
                frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.setVisible(true);
 
}
}

Okay. I'm not sure why you insist. Continue in this thread and I'll close the other.

Good luck.

Look into getActionCommand():
ActionEvent (Java Platform SE 7 )
That has a little description for it. Your code doesn't quite conform to what is usually seen but in terms of being able to work...that should be doable. Anyway do research on the above mentioned method.

i have and tried but cant to seem to get it working, could you give the the correct code to try

I won't just give you code and Norm certainly won't, take some time (more than a few minutes) to look for information on getActionCommand and getSource. To get you started google "<insert method> examples". You may have done this already but go over it again and you may see something you missed before.