getting information from GUI

[Kenneth Kelsey]

I would like to be able to retrieve the information typed into a textfield on my gui. What kind of code do I need to take the information typed in and apply it to the rest of my program as a variable.

[David Newton]

Web app or Swing or...?

[Kenneth Kelsey]

Swing

[David Newton]

Call the getText() method?

[Kenneth Kelsey]

How can I get a click event to get information. I am using a go button and three textFields and when I press the go button I want the information in the fields to be available to my program. How would I go about doing that?

[David Newton]

Have you checked out any of the basic Swing tutorials, either at Sun (er... Oracle) or elsewhere?

[Kenneth Kelsey]

No, but I will today

Thank You

[Vivek Moyal]

suppose you have one text box name firstField and a button name getValue

now you want the value from the textfiled on click

than you have to implement the actionListener interface so that you will get the button click event

method will look like this
and do this what i did to get the value form the textfield

1

  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
		
		if(arg0.getActionCommand()=="getValue"){
		
                 firstField.getText();	

		}
	}	  

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and if you want to save it in a variable than do this
make a string variable name saveValue

  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) {
		
		if(arg0.getActionCommand()=="getValue"){
		
            saveValue=     firstField.getText();	
              

		}
	}  

may be this is your problem's answer

[David Newton]

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