Re: static variable not keeping its value
On Mar 19, 10:13 pm, Lew <no...@lewscanon.com> wrote:
android_newbie wrote:
public class UserInput {
private static String userInput = "";
synchronized public static String getUserInput() {
System.out.println("getUserInput: " + userInput);
return userInput;
}
synchronized public static void setUserInput(String str) {
userInput = str;
System.out.println("setUserInput: " + userInput + " =
from str:
" + str);
}
}
I set the userInput with a call to UserInput.setUserInput("test
string");
but when I later call UserInput.getUserInput() it appears that
userInput is an empty string because the debugging printing only
prints getUserInput:
Can anyone explain what's happening to the userInput?
Would you please post the calling code?
--
Lew
Thanks Lew. I found the problem. I had another method that I had
called that overwrote the value w/o using the getter/setter.
public static void setValues(CustomTextBoxWidget textBox) {
UserInput.userInput = textBox.getText();
UserInput.label = textBox.getFieldName();
UserInput.mode = textBox.getMode();
}
Your question helped me look at the class again so thank you! Too many
hours in front of the computer...
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