Java: What's the difference between ActionEvent and ItemEvent on a JRadioButton?

java swing listener jradiobutton
iceburn picture iceburn · Aug 17, 2010 · Viewed 7.8k times · Source

They're both raised once after the mouse button is released and both can have all the information available on the JRadioButton right? Is there any difference?

Answer

krock picture krock · Aug 17, 2010

An ItemListeners are notified when ever the state of the button is changed, whether through a user interacting with the button or programmatically (via the setSelected method). ActionListeners on the other hand will be called when a user interacts with the button (but can be simulated programmatically via the onClick method).

Note that a user interacting with the button such as clicking or hitting the space bar will also change the state of the button and raise an item event as well as an action event. Generally, you will want to define either one or the other, don't listen for both action events and item events on the button.

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