How can i get a component from frame?

Question

how can i get a JTextField component from the frame?
in my program i use button and text fields, when button is pressed the action listener performs the needed actions: it must take the values in the text fields and do something with them,
for example i have a button - view:
look at the comments
public class _ActionListener_search implements ActionListener {
     private JFrame frame;
     private database dtbs;
     public _ActionListener_search(JFrame frame, database dtbs) {
          this.frame = frame;
          this.dtbs = dtbs;
     @Override
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
          if (arg0.getActionCommand().equals("view_person"))
                                        //HERE i want to get values from text fields!
                                        //i need to get JTextField component from frame and use it
view.addActionListener(new _ActionListener_search(frame, dtbs));how can i do it?
is this a correct way?

Answer 1

Encephalopathic wrote:
If you know that you're going to need the data held in them why not give the class that holds them a public method that returns the Strings that they hold.
public String getTextFieldXyzText()
return textFieldXyz.getText();
}Then if your actionlistener has a reference to this class's object, it can simply call the above method.That's what I was thinking. The view has a method getXyzText() and the listener (or some larger, enclosing controller) knows the view.
What I would get away from is a single, switch-board listener hooked to a 100 unrelated buttons.