custom events and listening to them 1

[Sedai]

I've created a custom event
alert = new WindowEvent(parent, AWTEvent.RESERVED_ID_MAX+1);

if obj is a reference to the object that i want to receive the event and i type obj.dispatchEvent(alert) is that sending the event to obj?

If it does, how can I detect that event.
I tried
enableEvents(AWTEvent.RESERVED_ID_MAX+1);
processEvent(alert);

then i have addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter(){
public void listenForAlert(WindwoEvent e){
//code
}
});

that doesn't work, and it was quite unlikely it would but i tried hehe. anyway, how can i create a custom listener. I'm not even sure if i'm on the right track here.

thank you!

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[scrat]

I do not think this is the usual way of processing events. Window events usually get generated by Window Event producers (like Window) and get processed by classes implementing WindowListener.

WindowAdapter myWindowListener = new WindowAdapter(myWindow) {
void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {...window closing code...}
};

You may be better writing your own event source / listener class pair rather than trying to fit it into the Window framework.

 

[Sedai]

shoot of course, duh, it's so obvious hehe.
i should extend my own Listener class. thanks a lot. i worked around that and don't need the special event/listener anymore, but still it's good to know. im still not used to JAVA hehe. thank a lot.
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