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It is right that you should do this. An inner class (named or 
anonymous) has access to the class methods and variables of
its enclosing class.

This allows you to make e.g. action listener inner classes that
access the outer class variables or call functions. I believe that
this capability was seen as essential for the java 1.1 event model.

Here's an example...

    public void init() {
        // work, work...
        buttonGo = new JButton("Go");
        // define anonymous inner class actionlistener for button
        buttonGo.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                buttonGo.setEnabled(false);  // accesses outer class
variable
                go(); // accesses outer-class method
        }});
        // work, work...
    }
    void go() {
        // work, work...
    }


Marcel van den Dungen wrote:
<snip>
> 
> I thought it would be impossible to call the doThis()-method in
> the internal class (MyInternalClass), but it seems to be no problem.
> Why is it possible to do such a call? And is this a proper solution?
> 
> thanks in advance,
> 
> vincent nuijten