Re: Newbie question
Zvonko wrote:
...
I have a question. Let us say that I write a MainForm class which has a
jDesktopPane, MenuBar and ToolBar. I would like to write classes for each
jInternalFrame and call it from MainForm using menu event listeners. But
when I try to access jDesktopPane from this outside class to add a
jInternaFrame, it says something about non static variable could not be
refernced from static ...
How do you update a component in another class?
Something like make it static..
And a couple of notes:
- a good group for Java begiiners as comp.lang.java.help
- once you figure how to ask questions, and become a little
more confident with the language, comp.lang.java.gui is
a good place to discuss GUI related matters.
- please type (or better, copy) error messages and stacktraces
*exactly* so that people can give you more specific help.
- I suspect your IDE (NetBeans?) is leading you into deep waters,
best put it aside for the moment and get a grip on the basics of
Java (you should probably not be coding GUI apps. yet).
Andrew T.
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