Using a concastinated variable to indentify an object

Question

Hi,
what I'm trying to do is loop through 81 jTextFields and disable them using concastinated variable names. I don't even know if this is possible.
To clarify : I have 9 jPanes, (named Pane1 to Pane9). Each jPane has 9 jTextFields, (named a11 -> a19, a21 ->a29 ...... a91->a99).
The code below is where I've got to and am having the problem. The compiler is not recognising TotalName as an object name for a jTextField
public void TurnOffCells ()
        PaneNumber = 1;
        CellNumber = 1;
        while (PaneNumber<10)
            while (CellNumber<10)
                PaneName = "Pane"+PaneNumber;
                CellName = "a"+PaneNumber+CellNumber;
                TotalName = PaneName+"."+CellName;
                TotalName.setEnabled(false);
                CellNumber++;
            PaneNumber++;
    }Please ignore my lack of convention correctness :)

Answer 1

EoinM wrote:
Hi,
what I'm trying to do is loop through 81 jTextFields and disable them using concastinated variable names. I don't even know if this is possible.Concastinated?
The code below is where I've got to and am having the problem. The compiler is not recognising TotalName as an object name for a jTextFieldThat's because you can't do it that way. Why don't you just put them all in a List and iterate over it?
public void TurnOffCells ()
PaneNumber = 1;
CellNumber = 1;
while (PaneNumber<10)
while (CellNumber<10)
PaneName = "Pane"+PaneNumber;
CellName = "a"+PaneNumber+CellNumber;
TotalName = PaneName+"."+CellName;
TotalName.setEnabled(false);
CellNumber++;
PaneNumber++;
}That code doesn't show what Object any of those variables are instances of. Are they Strings?
Please ignore my lack of convention correctness :)No. That coupled with your lack of initialization statements makes it impossible to determine what you're trying to do with your code.
Long story short, use a List (or a Map).