How to get what was typed on a window which is inside another window

Question

Hey guys!
I'm having a problem, i have created a program and when you click on a certain button a small window appears which was created from a class that i named Window...anyway this small window asks for a name, but somehow i can't send what was written in that window to the program that contains the main window...
i've tried creating a method in the class Window, which is called public String returnName(){ return, name;} but this doesn't return anything.
i hope you guys understand what i'm trying to say, if you do, any ideas of how i could do this???!!
-O.D.

Answer 1

this is the class Name1Window:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
public class Name1Window extends Frame implements ActionListener, WindowListener
     Label name;
     TextField txName;
     Button ok;
     Panel Pnl, PnlName, PnlOk;
     private String n;
     private String ln;
     public Name1Window()
          n= "";
          ln="";
          setSize(200,110);
          setTitle("Search");
          Pnl= new Panel();
          Pnl.setLayout(new GridLayout(2,1));
          PnlName= new Panel();
          PnlName.setLayout(new GridLayout(2,2));
          PnlOk=new Panel();
          PnlOk.setLayout(new GridLayout(1,1));
          name= new Label("Name");
          txName= new TextField(10);
          ok= new Button("OK");
          PnlName.add(name);
          PnlName.add(txName);
          PnlOk.add(ok);
          Pnl.setBackground(new Color(161, 187, 241));
          Pnl.add(PnlName);
          Pnl.add(PnlOk);
          add(Pnl);
          ok.addActionListener(this);
          addWindowListener(this);
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
      {//If the user clicks ok:
           if(e.getSource()==ok)
                String n1, ap1;
               n1= txName.getText();
               //calls the method save name and sends whatever was typed in txName:
               saveName(n1);
                dispose();
     public void saveName(String n2)
          this.n= n2;
          //If you write a System.out.println(n) it WILL print what was typed!!
           public String returnName()
          return n;//It's gonna return a " "
           public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e)
           //It exits the small window; Name1Window
           dispose();
            public void windowOpened(WindowEvent e){}
      public void windowClosed(WindowEvent e){}
      public void windowActivated(WindowEvent e){}
      public void windowDeactivated(WindowEvent e){}
      public void windowIconified(WindowEvent e){}
      public void windowDeiconified(WindowEvent e){}
}