can't get JTextField to update

[rippon]

(I'm a very novice programmer!) All I'm trying to do is see seconds counting away in a JTextField. I use my JButton secondButton simply to start myTimer. Here's the relevant bits of my code:

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

public class CountTime extends JFrame
{
private int myCounter = 0;
private Container cp;
private JButton exitButton = new JButton("Exit");
private JButton firstButton = new JButton("First");
private JButton secondButton = new JButton("Second");
private JTextField myOutput = new JTextField("output here",30);
public Graphics myGraphics;
private int delay = 1000; //milliseconds
ActionListener taskPerformer = new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
myOutput.setText("myCounter = " + (myCounter + 1));
myOutput.repaint();
}
};
Timer myTimer = new Timer(delay, taskPerformer);


public CountTime(String title)
{
super(title);
setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
setBounds(100,100,700,400);
cp = getContentPane(); cp.setLayout(new GridLayout(2,2));
cp.add(exitButton); cp.add(firstButton); cp.add(secondButton);
cp.add(myOutput);
exitButton.addActionListener(new ExitButtonWatcher());
firstButton.addActionListener(new FirstButtonWatcher());
secondButton.addActionListener(new SecondButtonWatcher());
myGraphics = getGraphics();
}

private class SecondButtonWatcher implements ActionListener
{
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent a)
{
myTimer.start();
}
} // end of: private class SecondButtonWatcher implements ActionListener


} // end of: public class CountTime extends JFrame

[Fubarable]

Perhaps you want to increment the counter variable in the Timer, and then set the JTextField with it, otherwise counter will never change, e.g.:

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
   myCounter = myCounter + 1;  // or myCounter++; works as well.
   myOutput.setText("myCounter = " + myCounter);
   
}

[rippon]

Of course; silly me!

Thank you.

But now I've got another problem (probably sill again): my counter is indeed incrementing, but it's going up by two each time, not one. Can't see why.

[Fubarable]

But now I've got another problem (probably sill again): my counter is indeed incrementing, but it's going up by two each time, not one. Can't see why.

Neither can I (without the updated code that is).

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[rippon]

Thanks, but I seem to have sorted my problem. Now I'm just going to try that [code] tag thing.

    public Graphics myGraphics;
    private int delay = 1000; //milliseconds
          ActionListener taskPerformer = new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {//...Perform a task...
                myCounter++;
                myOutput.setText("myCounter = " + myCounter);
                //myOutput.repaint();
                                                         }
                                                              };
        Timer myTimer = new Timer(delay, taskPerformer);