Normally, you don't need to use the ActionEvent parameter that is passed to the listener -- it's enough to know that the button was clicked. However, you can find out things such as the time to button was clicked, or which modifier keys were pressed, if you need them. You can also get a special code that you associated with that button if you need it.
btn.setText("someText"); btn.setIcon(anIcon);WARNING: If you change the size of the button by one of these changes, this may have consequences in the layout of the components. This may require a call to
validate()
or revalidate()
which then
computes a new layout based on the change in the button size. This is not
a quick operation. Replacing an icon with another of the same size should
not cause any problems.