Unable to return values in joptionpane

Question

Hi all,
Im having a slight problem with some code regarding a joptionpane. With the help of some code i found on the internet (lol i know theres a lot of bad stuff out there but i thought id give it a go), im making a new object array containing my fields, and then adding these objects to the joptionpane. it seems to work ok, but i cant get back the values the user entered into the fields - for a normal joptionpane id call the getText() method. (nb this is only a small test application, so it is ok that a password is being returned for anyone to see!)
In my code below, all i can get it to do is return the objects details eg javax.swing.JTextField[,0,19,195x20,layout=javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicTextUI$UpdateHandler,alignmentX=0.0 etc...., and not the value the user entered!
Is this bad code for what im trying to do? what is the easiest way of returning the users password?
Thanks in advance
Torre
here is the code:
if ("changePwdPressed".equals(e.getActionCommand())){
               Object complexMsg[] = { "Current Password: ", new JTextField(10), "New Password: ", new JTextField(10), "Confirm New Password: ", new JTextField(10) };
               JOptionPane optionPane = new JOptionPane();
               optionPane.setMessage(complexMsg);
               optionPane.setMessageType(JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
              JDialog dialog = optionPane.createDialog(this, "Change Password");
              dialog.setVisible(true);
              int i;
              for (i=0; i<complexMsg.length; i++)
              System.out.println(complexMsg);

Answer 1

This works, but it's ugly...
package forums;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
class ComplexJDialogTest
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
      System.out.println("Hello World!");
      message();
      System.out.println("Hello World!");
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
  private static void message() {
    Object messages[] = {
        "Current Password: ", new JTextField(10)
      , "New Password: ", new JTextField(10)
      , "Confirm New Password: ", new JTextField(10)
    JOptionPane optionPane = new JOptionPane(messages, JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
    JDialog dialog = optionPane.createDialog(null, "Change Password");
    dialog.setVisible(true);
    for (int i=1; i<messages.length; i+=2) {
      System.out.println(((JTextField)messages).getText());
dialog.dispose();
... I think I would prefer swmtgoet_x's solution... just create your three JTextField's (keep references to them) pass them to the JDialog, then (after user hits OK done) just access them directly.... ergo...
package forums;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
class ComplexJDialogTest
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    try {
      System.out.println("Hello World!");
      message();
      System.out.println("Hello World!");
    } catch (Exception e) {
      e.printStackTrace();
  private static void message() {
    JTextField oldPassword = new JTextField(10);
    JTextField newPassword = new JTextField(10);
    JTextField newPasswordAgain = new JTextField(10);
    Object messages[] = {
        "Current Password: ", oldPassword
      , "New Password: ", newPassword
      , "Confirm New Password: ", newPasswordAgain
    JOptionPane optionPane = new JOptionPane(messages, JOptionPane.INFORMATION_MESSAGE);
    JDialog dialog = optionPane.createDialog(null, "Change Password");
    dialog.setVisible(true);
    dialog.dispose();
    System.out.println(oldPassword.getText());
    System.out.println(newPassword.getText());
    System.out.println(newPasswordAgain.getText());