Problem with my return method

[braddy]

Hi all

I'm doing a gui prog, but I'm doing something wrong cause it won't work. I do not get any error messages but nothing happends. Hopefully you can see what I'm missing.
I have an arraylist which I populate with customer info and now I want to retrieve all customers by name and return from my method, but it won't work.
I try to collect the customer names in an string array and use it to populate a jlist...

Here are some code samples...

from my MainFrame class where the arraylist customerList is located.

 
	public String[] getCustomer()
	{
		String cust[] = new String[customerList.size()];
		int i = 0;

		for (Customer c: customerList)
		{
			cust[i] = c.getName();
			i++;
		}

		return cust;
	}

my getter from Customer class...

	public String getName()  
	{
		return name;
	}

and finally from my SubFrame class...

		MainFrame m = new MainFrame();
		
		listItems = new JList(m.getCustomer());

What am I missing, please help me.

[eRaaaa]

debugging?

customerList size 0 ?
print the return from getCustomer() (e.g. with System.out and Arrays,toString() or use a debugger!)
the list is visible? and so on...its hard to say with such less information...

[braddy]

I wish I had a debugging function, but I do not. This is my school work, I have tried to manipulated with fixed values instead of size but still no luck. Can I use System.out in a gui prog?

[Fubarable]

....Can I use System.out in a gui prog?

Give it a try and see! :)

[braddy]

To add some more info to you, I want to collect all customers name in a string array in MainFrame and then return the array to SubFrame which is another form to populate my JList with those names. Maybe there are some other way to do it, or maybe you can see something obvious in my code that fails. If you need more of my code please say so, or if you need more info, please specify what you need. I do not want to flood this page with some hundred lines of code if not needed. I just try to explain what's wrong with my application and focus on the code right there. Thank you.