[SOLVED] Open a different class from the same package when button clicked.

[mainy]

Hello,

Im new here and fairly new to Java and object orientated programming. I have a pretty simple problem for you guys, but it is driving me insane.

I have two classes, one called LoginBox and the other called MainInterface. They are both in the same package called VMD. Both of these classes extend JFrame and are two seperate windows.

There is a button in LoginBox called "confirm". It has an actionListener attached to it which works (I have tested it with a simple println command). What I am trying to achieve, is when the user clicks the button "confirm" it closes the LoginBox and opens MainInterface.

This is what I have at the moment:

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                        LoginBox.setVisible(false);
                        MainInterface.setVisible(true);
                    }

The problem is, IntelliJ reports that "Non-Static method 'setVisible(boolean)' cannot be referenced from a static context.


I hope you can help. I really don't know what I am doing wrong.

[neeraj.singh]

you are almost there....

just try to do with following under your actionPerformed section...

String action = a.getActionCommand();

if (action.equals("Comfirm")) {
.....setVisible(true);
................

hope it will help...
regards,
- Neeraj

[dswastik]

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                        this.setVisible(false);
                        MainInterface mi=new MainInterface();
                        mi.setVisible(true);
                    }

when you call MainInterface.setVisible(true/false), the compiler will assume setVisible to be a static method defined inside that class, but which is not the case. So you need to call the method with the reference of the class.

[mainy]

Hurrah!!! it worked :o

Thank you so much dswastik, i've spent hours trying to get that work. I thought it had something to do with telling the program MainInterface is not in that class, I just didn't know how to write that in Java Syntax.


Thank you to neeraj.singh, I now know how to assign multiple buttons to do different things; Atleast, I think that is what your code is referring to.

[neeraj.singh]

hi mainy....

thats...good..
and thanks.