public jTextField ?

[vagf]

Ok simple question! I have a swing jFrame in a netbeans java application project and a jTextField inside of it. Is there any possible way of retrieving the text from the textField using another class? Obviously i cannot do that because the textField is declared private in swing awt but i was wondering if there is any way around it.

Thanks in advance!

[Norm]

Add a public getter method that can get the contents and return it.

Are these Java SE classes you are talking about? The lowercase j makes me wonder.

[mine0926]

@Norms - maybe its the component name like jTextField1, jTextField2 and so on.
It is the name being assign by netbeans at design time but it can be change.

@OP - you also have to create instance of that class then call the getter method

public class ClassA
{
    ...
    public String getTextFieldText()
    {
        jTextField1.getText();
    }
}

public class ClassB
{
    ...
    ClassA aClassA = new ClassA();
    private void textFromOtherClass()
    {
        aClassA.getTextFieldText();
    }
}

[DarrylBurke]

It is the name being assign by netbeans at design time but it can be change.

Should be changed.

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