Re: inner class and static


"jim" <jseers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I was told that the variable accessed inside a anonymous inner class
needs to be static.

An inner class (whether anonymous or not) may access the instance variables
of the outer class and it can access the local variables of the method that
instantiates it, provided they are final.

Cheers,
Matt Humphrey matth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.iviz.com/


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