Use of the form input

Question

Hi,
I have a class Manager and a class ManagerGUI. I have formatted the code so that it is more readable.
My ManagerGUI class looks somehting like this-
public class ManagerGUI extends JFrame
String name;
JPanel namePanel;
JTextField nameInput;
JLabel nameLabel;
Manager empAgent;
ManagerGUI(Manager ea)
super(ea.getLocalName());
empAgent = ea;
//make the name panel and add it to the topPanel.
addListeners();
getContentPane().add(topPanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
setResizable(false);
}//end constructor.
public void show()
pack();
super.setVisible(true);
void addListeners()
nameInput.addActionListener(new NameL());
class NameL implements ActionListener
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
nameE = nameInput.getText();
}//end class ManagerGUI.I have tried to seperate it out so that any changes can be easily implemented (although it perhaps is a long way of doing things).
Now I have a class Manager that wants to call the GUI and then process the information got from the text field.
I use the following lines to call the GUI class.
manGui = new ManagerGUI(this);
manGui.show();I want to use the variable nameE in the Manager. How can I do that?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Duplicate post. See http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=686105&messageID=3993035#3993035
You could put a get method in the nameL class that returns nameE. Then call it from your managerGUI