Setting the name of a JTextField in a variable

Hi,
I'm new to Java programming and have recently come across a problem where I need to store the name of a JTextField in a variable.
Currently I have a String variable named "selectedBox" and the value of it will be the name of the selected JTextField such as "txtFirstName"
I want to be able to use the "selectedBox" variable with getText() so I have tried selectedBox.getText() however this returns the following error message:
"The method getText() is undefined for the type String"
After a lot of searching I haven't been able to find out how to do this correctly and was wondering if anyone might be able to point me in the right direction.
Thanks.

KheeseKake wrote:
Well basically I'm trying to create copy/paste menu items and so currently I have the name of the JTextFields write to the "selectedBox" variable when they become focussed using the following code...
txtFirstName.addFocusListener(new FocusAdapter() {
     public void focusGained(FocusEvent fe) { selectedBox = "txtFirstName"; }
txtLastName.addFocusListener(new FocusAdapter() {
     public void focusGained(FocusEvent fe) { selectedBox = "txtLastName"; }
});...and then when the user selects an action such as Copy from the Edit menu I have it perform the following...
Clipboard clipboard = getToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
StringSelection data = new StringSelection(selectedBox.getText());
clipboard.setContents(data, data);But this obviously doesn't work as stated above and this is the only way that I could think of with the small knowledge that I have so far with Java programming but I'm guessing there's a more logical way that I don't know of ;)Ok,
change as following
//create a reference object of JTextBox on the class level
JTextBox selectedBox1 = null;
txtFirstName.addFocusListener(new FocusAdapter() {
     public void focusGained(FocusEvent fe) { selectedBox1 = txtFirstName; }
txtLastName.addFocusListener(new FocusAdapter() {
     public void focusGained(FocusEvent fe) { selectedBox1 = txtLastName; }
Clipboard clipboard = getToolkit().getSystemClipboard();
StringSelection data = new StringSelection(selectedBox1.getText());
clipboard.setContents(data, data);
The problem itself is clearing almost everything.
You are calling a method (getText()) on an object of String which does not have any method defined with this name.
Regards
Aakash Agarwal

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