Action Events

Activating a Component, such as a Button, generally triggers the method

public boolean action(Event e, Object arg);

for that Component. The arg parameter depends on the Component that was activated. The following table summarizes the values:

Component	arg type	description
Button	String	The label of the Button.
Checkbox	Boolean	The new state of the checkbox.
Choice	String	The selected item.
List	String	The selected item.
TextArea	String	The text in the TextArea.
TextField	String	The text in the TextField.

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