Programming Forums - event handeling assistance

I have a menu bar with some menus, file->open, new, save..etc. But I also have a tool bar that I placed buttons on for open, new, save..etc.

My problem is I'm not sure how to have these buttons fire the same events as those from the menu bar. I know I can do getActionCommand() and see if it equals the string name of the button, but I have the buttons set as images so I never assigned a string name to them... is there a way I could over ride getActionCommand() to say check for the name of the button as opposed to the string so I can throw an 'or' and see if it was either triggered from the file menu OR the button I have specified located on the tool bar.



    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) 

    {  

      String command = e.getActionCommand();



      if( command.equals("Exit") )

      {

          System.out.println("Exiting");

      }

      // check which menu alternative the user has chosen



        //*************************************************

        // File JMenu Items

        //*************************************************



      // New



      //I have a button for new... jbtNew, which I want to attach to this 

      //code, same would go for the 5 or so other buttons that I put on 

      //the tool bar.

      if(command.equals("New") )  

      {      

        saveOld();

        area.setText("");  // empty the text area

        currentFile = "noName";

        setTitle(currentFile);

        changed = false;

      }



      //there are more...omitted for conciseness

I originally thought I had gotten around this problem because I added anonymous listeners, however, with my "open" event I use a JFileChooser and for some reason if I make an anonymous listener with any code pertaining to a JFileChooser the compiler yells..

 jbtOpen.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){

          public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){

              saveOld();

              JFileChooser jFileChooser2 = new JFileChooser(new File("."));

              

              if(jFileChooser2.showOpenDialog(this) == JFileChooser.APPROVE_OPTION)

              {

                loadFile(jFileChooser.getSelectedFile());

              }

          }

      });

I hope my problem has been made clear. Thanks a ton to whoever helps me out. Very much appreciated.