This topic goes on and on. I tried to import all of the code into my NetBeans, but I am missing some classes, and there is a lot of code snipping going on, so that didn't work. All We can do is guess the answers to your problems.
Can't you give a full listing, including everything?
Then:
Cody Biggs wrote:Well it does. The code gets the major name which is set to undeclared. Change the major textfield gets the new major, and sets it to majorName. but when that window closes it goes back to undeclared
Since the student is known here (is it?) why don't you simply do 'student.xxx(change)' (set the new major here with the correct Student method).