What do I comment on a design with multiple button classes (jbutton objects' action listeners)

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I have a project design that uses Java Swing for the GUI part of the application and it consists of multiple button classes that corresponds to each button on the main GUI. Is it useful to have so many button classes? What are the advantages of this approach? Are there alternative ways I can design this? Is it a good or a bad idea for each of them to be declared in a separate file?

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Posted 7-Dec-16 18:16pm

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Updated 7-Dec-16 22:32pm

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2016-12-07T22:32:00

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If you have too many buttons on the display then the chances are that the design is going to confuse your users. Why do you need multiple button classes, why not one class that contains all the logic for a button?

Posted 7-Dec-16 22:32pm

Richard MacCutchan

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Member 12701313- questforimprovement 8-Dec-16 11:11am

I don't have more buttons on the GUI than required, however I do have a class for each button that `extends JButton implements ActionListener`

Richard MacCutchan 8-Dec-16 11:49am

How many buttons, and what does each one do that cannot be done with a standard JButton?

Member 12701313- questforimprovement 8-Dec-16 12:43pm

There are around 9 buttons, and each one of them have different ActionListener functions, except 4 of them that extends a customized Button class.

Richard MacCutchan 8-Dec-16 12:58pm

Having different ActionListeners does not require new classes.