Costum Event Handling - event-handling

Question

I issue I am trying to get rid off is the following:
I intend to setup a costum event handling chain as a workaround for JavaFX's lack of actioncommands.
The issue in particular is, that a menuitem upon clicking it, still fires an ActionEvent instead of the self-written MilvaLabActionEvent.
The code:
Event class
package jpt.gui.items;
import javafx.event.ActionEvent;
public class MilvaLabActionEvent extends ActionEvent {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 6757067652205246280L;
private String actionCommand ="";
public MilvaLabActionEvent(String actionCommand2) {
setActionCommand(actionCommand2);
}
public MilvaLabActionEvent() {}
public String getActionCommand() {
return actionCommand;
}
public void setActionCommand(String actioncommand) {
this.actionCommand = actioncommand;
}
}
My EventHandler:
package jpt.gui.items;
import javafx.event.EventHandler;
import jpt.MilvaLabGlobal;
import jpt.MilvaLabKonst;
import jpt.handle.MilvaLabDateiHandle;
import jpt.handle.MilvaLabEinHandle;
import jpt.handle.MilvaLabHilfeHandle;
import jpt.handle.MilvaLabMilvaHandle;
import jpt.handle.MilvaLabRvAnwendungHandle;
import jpt.handle.MilvaLabrvTextHandle;
import jpt.log4j.MilvaLabLogger;
public class MilvaLabEventHandler implements EventHandler<MilvaLabActionEvent>{
#Override
public void handle(MilvaLabActionEvent event) {
// the command string of the menu item
final String sCmd = event.getActionCommand();
if (sCmd.charAt(0) == 'M')
{//doing something here
}
}
The costum MenuItem-Class I figured out I gotta write.
package jpt.gui.items;
import javafx.event.Event;
import javafx.scene.control.MenuItem;
public class MilvaLabMenuItem extends MenuItem {
private String actionCommand;
public MilvaLabMenuItem(String sText) {
this.setText(sText);
}
#Override
public void fire() {
Event.fireEvent(this, new MilvaLabActionEvent(getActionCommand()));
}
public String getActionCommand() {
return actionCommand;
}
public void setActionCommand(String actionCommand) {
this.actionCommand = actionCommand;
}
}
And the initialization of the costum MenuItem:
final MilvaLabMenuItem jmi = new MilvaLabMenuItem("I am a menuItem");
jmi.addEventHandler(evtype, new MilvaLabEventHandler());
jmi.setOnAction((event) -> {
System.out.print("I have fired an ActionEvent!");
});
Well, as of now, I got "I have fired an ActionEvent" when I click on the MilvaLabMenuItem, nothing else happens. (Looked into that thing already using the debugger).
What I want to happen is that, obviously, the MilvaLabEventHandler is called.

Answer 1

I figured it out again.
I declared two EventTypes, though, only one was necessary.
This helped me finding the solution, though, they use Nodes instead of MenuItems.
How to emit and handle custom events?