since: J-Bird - 0.1.1

 public Ticker(JbirdDB db,
    ResourceBundle rb,
    JBirdOptions jo,
    LogListener logger,
    Frame owner,
    ObserverChooser oc) 
{
	
	dbase = db;
	jbirdoptions = jo;
	progres = rb;
	owningframe = owner;
	log = logger;
	observerchooser = oc;
   	lifemessage = rb.getString("Life_tick_for");
   	regmessage  = rb.getString("Region_tick_for");
	tripmessage = rb.getString("Trip_tick_for");
	alreadymessage = rb.getString("Already_ticked_for");
	failmessage = rb.getString("Tick_failed");
	untickmessage = rb.getString("Untick_for");
	nottickdmessage = rb.getString("Not_ticked");
   	tickbutton = new Button(rb.getString("Tick"));
   	untickbutton = new Button(rb.getString("Untick"));
	annotatebutton = new Button(rb.getString("TickAnnotate"));
	displaybutton = new Button(rb.getString("DisplayTicks"));
	GridBagLayout gridbag = new GridBagLayout();
	GridBagConstraints c = new GridBagConstraints();
	c.insets = inset;
	setLayout(gridbag);
	c.gridwidth = 1;
	c.gridheight = 1;
	c.gridx = 0;
	c.gridy = 0;
	add(tickbutton, c);
	c.gridx = 2;
	add(annotatebutton, c);
	c.gridx = 3;
	add(untickbutton, c);
	c.gridx = 4;
	add(displaybutton, c);
	checkStatus();
   	TickButtonListener tickbuttonlistener = new TickButtonListener();
	tickbutton.addActionListener(tickbuttonlistener);
   	UnTickButtonListener untickbuttonlistener = new UnTickButtonListener();
	untickbutton.addActionListener(untickbuttonlistener);
	annotatebutton.addActionListener(new AnnotateButtonListener());
	displaybutton.addActionListener(new DisplayButtonListener());
	gratifyqueue = new AVQueue(3000, owner);
}

Big cheat. Pass the observerchooser so that I can get the names. IndexedListChooser should have a mechanism for providing both to listeners.

 protected String buildEditorTitle(String[] names) 
{
			// start with species name
	String[] specname = speciessource.getSpeciesName();
	StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer()
				.append(specname[0])
				.append(":");
			// add observer names
	for (int i = 0; i <  names.length; i++) {
		sb.append(" ")
		  .append(names[i]);
	}
	return sb.toString();
}

 protected JTextEditor getJTextEditor() 
{
	return texteditor;
}

 public final int getSelectedSpecies() 
{
	return currentspecies;
}

Return currently selected species, which should be -1 no species is selected.

 public IntarrayListener passObserverListener() 
{
	return observerlistener;
}

 public final IntarrayListener passRegionListener() 
{
	return regionlistener;
}

 public final IntegerListener passSpeciesListener() 
{
	return specieslistener;
}

 public final IntarrayListener passTripListener() 
{
	return triplistener;
}

 protected  void setJTextEditor(JTextEditor ed) 
{
	texteditor = ed;
}

 protected  void setSpeciesSource(SpeciesNameIface iface) 
{
	speciessource = iface;
}