Call a public string variable

[onstock]

I took a sample code for a drop-down menu for my applet and placed it in a InputDialogWithDropdownListbox class.

public class InputDialogWithDropdownListbox{
	public String input;
               public void drop(Valstybe G[], int n) {
               String[] ListZemynai = new String[10];
                   for(int i=0;i<n;i++){
                         ListZemynai[i]=G[i].gautiZemyna();   
                                        }
               final List<String> lst = Arrays.asList(ListZemynai);   
               final HashSet<String> set = new HashSet<String>(lst);   
               String[] unique = (String[]) set.toArray(new String[set.size()]);  
               input = (String) JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "Pasirinkite zemyna",
        "Pasirinkimas", JOptionPane.QUESTION_MESSAGE, null, unique, unique[1] // 
               ); 
        }
}

Here is where I draw the drop-down menu:

class SurastiDialogas extends JDialog {
	  SurastiDialogas(){
		InputDialogWithDropdownListbox menii = new InputDialogWithDropdownListbox();
                       menii.drop(A,n);
		JButton ok = new JButton("OK");
		System.out.println(menii.input ); //returns a value
		
	}
}

I have invoked String type public variable input located inside drop method. And it did print out the string value which I chose in the dialog.
The problem is, I cannot use such string variable in another method which I need to compare to another list of strings. Here is the code:

public Valstybe[] surasti (Valstybe G[], int n){
		Valstybe A[] = new Valstybe[10];
                InputDialogWithDropdownListbox ZemynaiOption = new InputDialogWithDropdownListbox();  
                System.out.println("The value of input located in another class: " + "\n");
                [B]System.out.println(ZemynaiOption.input); [/B] //returns null
                String[] valstybes = new String[10];   
                String[] zemynai = new String[10]; 
                int i=0;
		for (int a=0;a<n;a++){

			valstybes[a]=G[a].gautiPav(); //we get a value from a file (skipped code) and then parse to array
			zemynai[a]=G[a].gautiZemyna(); // ---------- "" ----------
                        if(ZemynaiOption.equals(zemynai[a])) { //checking where zemynai[a] equals input string from drop-down menu
						A[i]=G[a];  //if equals, we form a new array
						i++; 
						}
	
			}	
			return A;  //returns filtered array
                }

System.out.println(ZemynaiOption.input); here returns null while in method SurastiDialogas menii.input returns a string value. What am I missing here to return input value inside Valstybe method?

[Norm]

System.out.println(ZemynaiOption.input); here returns null

The println method does not return any value. It is defined as void. Can you explain what you mean by "returns"?
Are you saying that the above println prints out a null for the value of the input variable in the ZemynaiOption object?
Does that variable have a value other than null? Where and when is the variable: input assigned a value?

[onstock]

The println method does not return any value. It is defined as void. Can you explain what you mean by "returns"?
Are you saying that the above println prints out a null for the value of the input variable in the ZemynaiOption object?

Exactly.

input = (String) JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null, "Pasirinkite zemyna",
        "Pasirinkimas", JOptionPane.QUESTION_MESSAGE, null, unique, unique[1] // 
               );

Here is where variable: input gets assigned with a value.

For instance, I have a list in drop-down menu with some values (values are taken from a text file):

Europe
Asia
Africa

After selecting some value (Europe, for example) and clicking "OK" button, the code

System.out.println(menii.input ); //returns a value

prints out value: "Europe", while

System.out.println(ZemynaiOption.input);

prints out value: "null".

[Norm]

To see when the variable input gets its value, add a println just after the assignment statement that sets its value to print out its value.
You may be getting its value before it gets a valid value.