Changing different Swing control and their properties dynamically?

[shurgs]

So hypothetically, say I have two jTextPanes: tp1 and tp2, and an integer i.

I want a certain piece of text to be printed in either tp1 or tp2 depending on the integer I by putting "tp" + i into a string and using that to search for the swing control. I remember in PASCAL you had to use a loop that searched through every control, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to do it in Java.

This example is basically a very simplified version of what I want to do, but any help understanding the concept behind it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for readin',
-shurgs

[imorio]

I'm no expert, but my suggestion would be to use a switch statement if there aren't that many textfields, so:

switch(i){
case 0: print in textfield1
case 1: print in textfield2
etc.
}

[Fubarable]

You could place the JTextFields in an array and then simply use i as the array index. Other options are to use a List or a Map.

[shurgs]

Thanks for the reply. I hadn't thought of that actually and it's a good suggestion, but as you say, I'm not sure it would scale up well. There's going to quite a few and I need to loop through them systematically, pulling data from a MySQL database and putting it in the text fields.

[shurgs]

An array would work beautifully actually. It kinda seems obvious now that you've said it :D

Thank you all for your replies.
-shurgs

[Fubarable]

I wonder if you need to use a JTable instead?

[shurgs]

jTables and Tabel Models confuse the hell out of me, especially with the Swing GUI editor, because it makes it so bloomin' awkward to edit the code. A terrible reason to use something else and bad practice, I know, but I'm hoping this will work out better in the end anyway for what I want to achieve. Hehe.

I just thought of something. To place them into an array I would have to loop through the controls anyway, unless I did it manually, but that would just be silly. Kinda puts me back to square one. :)

Maybe I should just bite the bullet and try tables again.