Hi all,

I am busy designing a biggish swing application and I was taken aback
by a cast exception. As I was not expecting an exception I decided to
test this somewhere else.

So I have class (ActionFactory) that extends AbstractAction. The Main
class I am testing from is [PopWindowManager ->calls Test()-> creates a
button and a new action. Then set the action to the button

My code is as follows:
//
//Test ActionFactory
//
private class ActionFactory extends AbstractAction {
/**
* Constructor to create an new action from the gvien parameters.
* @param name
* @param hint
* @param mnemonic
*/
public ActionFactory(String name, String hint, char mnemonic) {
      putValue(Action.NAME, name);
      putValue(Action.SHORT_DESCRIPTION, hint);
      putValue(Action.MNEMONIC_KEY, mnemonic);
}

 public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
     System.out.println("Check if this has an exception as well");
 }

}

//
//Then I have fucntion to test the action into. Uses a JButton
//
private void test() {
      JButton test = new JButton();

       ActionFactory factory = new ActionFactory("Test", "Click To
Test", 'T');

       test.setAction(factory);
}// test-----------------------------------

//
//Here is the exception
//
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.ClassCastException:
java.lang.Character
at
javax.swing.AbstractButton.configurePropertiesFromAction(AbstractButton.java:11
17)
at
javax.swing.AbstractButton.configurePropertiesFromAction(AbstractButton.java:10
63)
at javax.swing.JButton.configurePropertiesFromAction(JButton.java:220)
at javax.swing.AbstractButton.setAction(AbstractButton.java:997)
at
com.mkhululi.desktion.popup.PopWindowManager.test(PopWindowManager.java:120)
at com.mkhululi.desktion.popup.PopWindowManager.
(PopWindowManager.java:112)
at
com.mkhululi.desktion.popup.PopWindowManager.main(PopWindowManager.java:127)

//------------------------------------------------

PLEASE, help what am I doing wrong!

Thanks in advance!

Yours,
Me