Sending text from one JFrame to another

Question

I've been trying to create a program which creates two JFrame objects obtained as instances of the classes InFrame and OutFrame, each of them containing a textfield and a textarea. I want to accomplish the following:
1) on the textField in JFrame1 I type text. I hit ENTER and because it has an actionListener it comes out on the textarea on the JFrame2
2) on the textField in JFrame2 I type text. I hit ENTER and it comes out on the textarea on the JFrame1, some sort of Chat Simulator.
I already made the first textField to receive input and display it on the textarea of JFrame2, but i haven't been able to do it for the other JFrame. Can anyone tell me how to finish it? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I've been trying to create a program which creates two
JFrame objects obtained as instances of the classes
InFrame and OutFrame, each of them containing a
textfield and a textarea. I want to accomplish the
following:
1) on the textField in JFrame1 I type text. I hit
ENTER and because it has an actionListener it comes
out on the textarea on the JFrame2
2) on the textField in JFrame2 I type text. I hit
ENTER and it comes out on the textarea on the JFrame1,
some sort of Chat Simulator.
I already made the first textField to receive input
and display it on the textarea of JFrame2, but i
haven't been able to do it for the other JFrame. Can
anyone tell me how to finish it? Any help would be
greatly appreciated.Are these running in the same JVM? If so, then you should have a single "parent" (bad word choice) that handles instantiation of the 2 JFrames. It should also have a reference to each of them.
Have each of the JFrames present 3 methods:
1. public void addTextListener(ActionListener l):
This allows you to add an ActionListener to the TextField of one of the frames, which you can then have call the following methods.
2. public void appendText(String s):
Adds text to the TextArea
3. public String getText():
Gets the text in the TextField.
I can't help but think, tho, that both classes should be of the same type if they genuinely do the same thing.