Action Event

ActionEvent

This is a SemanticEvent which indicates that a component-defined action has occurred.

• This high-level event is generated by a component (such as a Button) when a component-specific action occurs (such as being pressed).

The event is passed to every every ActionListener object that registered to receive such events

• using the component's addActionListener method.

The object that implements the ActionListener interface gets this ActionEvent

• when the event occurs.

Hence the listener

• is spared the details of processing individual mouse movements and mouse clicks,
• can instead process a "meaningful" SemanticEvent like "button pressed".

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