Hello,

I have been stuck writing this program for 3 days now and every example I have come across seems to do it exactly the same way I am trying. I do not know what I am missing, its obviously something easy, someone please point it out to me

Basically I need to get text from a textfield on button press. My error is the actionPerformed can't see the text field. I have tried in an abstract method, a seperate class, and in the same class, all failed. I need to do more stuff to the text it after this happens, but I figure after I get over this hump, the rest will be easy.

Current Compiling Issues:

cannot find symbol method addActionListener(TheFrame)
I got this recently since i changed to 'implimenting ActionListener' in my TheFrame class, was not having trouble with this prior when I had a seperate class to handle it and made an object of it in TheFrame.

cannot find symbol variable textField
This is my main problem! The actionPerformed can't find textField??? What do I need to do to get it to see textField.

The Code:

public class TheFrame extends JFrame implements ActionListener
{
	public TheFrame()
	{
		JPanel center = new JPanel();
		JPanel top = new JPanel();
		JPanel bottom = new JPanel();
		
		JLabel label1 = new JLabel("Text Field");
		JLabel label2 = new JLabel("Text Area");
		JLabel label3 = new JLabel("Combo Box");
		
		JButton button = new JButton("Move");
		JComboBox comboBox = new JComboBox();
		JTextArea textArea = new JTextArea(10,20);
		JTextField textField = new JTextField(20);
		
		button.addActionListener(this);
		comboBox.addActionListener(this);
		textArea.addActionListener(this);
		textField.addActionListener(this);
		
		center.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
		center.add(label1);
		center.add(textField);
		center.add(label2);
		center.add(textArea);
		center.add(label3);
		center.add(comboBox);
	
		top.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
		top.add(new JLabel("By ..."));
		
		bottom.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
		bottom.add(button);
		
		add(top, BorderLayout.NORTH);
		add(center, BorderLayout.CENTER);
		add(bottom, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
	}

	public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
	{
		String text = textField.getText();
		System.out.println(text);
	}
	
	public static void main(String[] arrrrggggggghhhhhs)
	{
		TheFrame frame = new TheFrame();
		frame.setTitle("Action Event Demo");
		frame.setSize(300, 350);
		frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
		frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		frame.setVisible(true);
	}
}

Thanks in advance!!

Instantiate text field at the class level. In other words do this...

public class TheFrame extends JFrame implements ActionListener
{
private JTextField textField;
	public TheFrame()
	{
//rest of your code

Hope this helps... Cheers

thanks! i had another issue posted here but i figured it out so editing it out...appreciate the help.

This post has been edited by PeRFeCK: 14 April 2009 - 01:40 PM