Access a JComponent through a variable?

Question

Hello
Let's say I have a method like this:
private String methodX(String name) {
     String textOfJTextField = name.getText();
     return textOfJTextField;
}where name is the name of a JTextField. Ofcourse this wont work because name is a String. But if I want to get the text from the JTextField that has the name name, how do I accomplish that?
Thanks
/ Oscar

Answer 1

Thanks. The reference bit was kind of what I was
looking for, but I thought that wasn't so easy to
accomplish in Java, where method calls always is call
by value isn't it?Yes, it is.
It would be very kind if you would like to explain a
bit more, maybe even with an example, or just a link
somewhere!Oh please. You do know what an attribute is, do you?
class MyClass {
  JTextArea myJTextArea;
  // c'tor
  // stuff
  // inside some method:
    String t = myJTextArea.getText();
  // bla
}