Cast Element to Widget

Hi guys I'm really stuck on that problem.... Please look at the basic class below and the comments

public class PlanningWidget extends Composite {

   private @UiField FooterPlanningLine footerPlanningLine;
   private @UiField FooterLeft footerLeft;

  public void paintBackground() {
      footerPlanningLine.paintBackground();
  }

}

public abstract class Composite extends Widget implements IsRenderable { ... }

public class FooterPlanningLine extends Composite {
 
   //constructor

   public void paintBackground() {
       //I want to call this method regardless from FooterLeft or PlanningWidget...
   }

}

public class FooterLeft extends Composite {

   private Canvas canvas;

  //constructor

     canvas.addClickHandler(new ClickHandler() {          
            @Override
            public void onClick(ClickEvent event) {
                // HERE I'D LIKE TO CALL THE  FooterPlanningLine/PlanningWidget paintBackground() METHOD
           }
   }

These class are client-sided. I have tried to do :
     
     
    NodeList<Element> nodeList = Document.get().getElementsByTagName("footerPanel");  
    // the line above gets the element of type FooterPlanningLine from the DOM

    Element footerLp = nodeList.getItem(0); //The Element that I have to convert to Widget
    Anchor.wrap(footerLp);
    Widget myWidget = new Widget(); 

       // I WAS SUPPOSED TO DO THE THING BELOW BUT setElement is DEPRECATED ! Can't use it anymore
       myWidget.setElement(footerLp);
      ((FooterPlanningLine) w).paintBackground();

 /*  How can I call the FooterPlanningLine paintBackground() method OR PlanningWidget paintBackground() method from the FooterLeft click listener ???  I'm really stuck .. Thank you for help. */

}

Hi!

That Anchor.wrap(footerLP) that you call there should already return to you an Anchor widget, was that a failed experiment that you just haven't removed yet? I'm not exactly sure which one of your classes has that footerPanel element, but perhaps you could add a similar wrapper method to that class as well? Or your PlanningWidget instance could just give itself as a reference to that footerLeft instance.