Adding a condition in GUI

Question

I have a main GUI file which is like the test file and I have an AddwardenDialog file i need to get the value entered in theWardenRank from AddWardenDialog to use in my main GUI file to determine a condition relating to something else.
So just want to know how I can copy this value from AddwardenDialog to main testing GUI file
          add (new JLabel("Enter Warden Rank:       "));
          theWardenRank = new JTextField(20) ;
          add (theWardenRank);Thankyou

Answer 1

noone got any idea's of how to do this then? HELP lol
I've got another problem as well adding a search method in GUI
non GUI version
Prison.java
public void SearchPrisonersFOR(JTextArea displayArea)          {               for(Person nextPrisoner : thePersons)
                    if (nextPrisoner instanceof Prisoner)
                              Prisoner p = (Prisoner) nextPrisoner;
                                   if (p.getPrisonerID().equals(id))
                                        displayArea.append("\n" + p);
TestPrison.java
//Search for Prisoner by ID               
                    case 6:
                         System.out.println("Enter ID to search");
                         id = kybd.next();
                         HMEssex.SearchPrisoners(id);
                         break;
                    }GUI
SearchPrisonersDialog.java
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class SearchPrisonersDialog extends JDialog implements ActionListener
     private JButton ok;
     private JButton cancel ;
     private JTextField id;
     public SearchPrisonersDialog(String sTitle, JFrame owner)
          super (owner, sTitle, true);
          setLayout(new FlowLayout());
          setSize(400,250);
          add (new JLabel("Enter Prisoner ID to search for:    "));
          id = new JTextField(10) ;
          add (id);
          ok = new JButton("Search");
          ok.addActionListener(this);
          add(ok);
          cancel = new JButton("Cancel");
          cancel.addActionListener(this);     
          add(cancel);
     //public Prisoner getPrisoner()
          //return thePrisoner ;
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
          if (e.getSource() == ok)
               return id;
               //SearchPrisonersFOR(id);
          else if (e.getSource() == cancel)
              // data entry cancelled
              id = null;
          dispose();
}how do I add a method into Main GUI TestPrisonGUI.java, so that my search method will work
2 problems to solve now
Thankyou