Help with getText()

Question

Hi all,
I could do with a little help using the getText method of TextField.
Basically what I have is two classes, NewWin and Transmit.
In NewWin, a small window is created in which a user will type a string in. When they press the submit button, it should send the string through to the constructor of a class called Transmit, where it should get printed out into a window created by Transmit. However, it doesn't do so for some reason.
My windows work fine and I receive no errors, however the text doesn't seem to be put into my 'myString' variable. The 'myString' variable has been declared as public.
JTextField preTextField = new JTextField();
myString = preTextField.getText();...now, later in my NewWin class, this is the method to submit the string to the constructor of the Transmit class (transm has also been declared publicly).
transm = new Transmit(myString);This is received by the constructor of Transmit (ipNum has been declared public)...
public Transmit(String destip)
      JLabel preLabelText = new JLabel(ipNum);
      Container prePane = getContentPane();
      prePane.add(preLabelText, "South");
}...which should print out the received string, but it doesn't. If I change the JLabel value to an actual string then it prints out the string that's written, but it won't print out what's in the variable.
My only guess is that .getText() isn't working properly, but can anyone see why? I'm stumped as everything else works.
Thanks,
Jaiyan

Answer 1

Sorry, that was a typo and not in my code. This is what I really have in my code, sorry for the confusion.
public Transmit(String ipNum)
JLabel preLabelText = new JLabel(ipNum);     
Container prePane = getContentPane();     
prePane.add(preLabelText, "South");