java - Add listener to ArrayList

Question

I have an ArrayList which I add some Objects to it dynamically, and I have a JButton. The ArrayList is empty when running my program and the JButton is set to setEnabled(false). I want to enable my button whenever there are 2 elements in the ArrayList or more and disable it again if the ArrayList has one item or empty. How can I achieve this?

Answer 1

Javafx (part of JRE 8) provides an observable list implementation. This code works for me:

ObservableList<MyAnno> lstAnno1 = FXCollections.observableList(new ArrayList<MyAnno>());

lstAnno1.addListener((ListChangeListener.Change<? extends MyAnno> c) -> {
   c.next();
   updateAnnotation((List<MyAnno>) c.getAddedSubList(), xyPlot);
});

...
lstAnno1.add(new MyAnno(lTs, dValue, strType));
...

public void updateAnnotation(List<MyAnno> lstMyAnno, XYPlot xyPlot) {
   lstMyAnno.forEach(d -> {
   ...
   });
}