Re: JFrame
StillillWill@googlemail.com wrote:
Gosh I'm really sorry to make this so long for you, and thanks for your
help.
No worries - just asking the questions I need to ask to understand what you're
asking.
Yeah I mean to open a class that I have compiled from a .java text file
that does pretty much the same thing as the original class, open new
classes with buttons and save text fields to a file.
Just to narrow down the issue, what is the class declaration from one of these
other window classes?
I am asking for the part that looks a little like
public class SomeClassName {
I'm guessing that inside this class you have a line something like
JFrame frame = ...;
or
JInternalFrame frame = ...;
and probably another line that looks like
JButton someButton = ...;
I am making a GUI for a program that has navigation buttons. I've
built each of the GUI frames or 'windows' into different class files.
So I want the buttons in each frame to access another class file, how
do I do that?
I am guessing that you have a button handler in your "main" window that you
want to cause some action in another window, or else that you have a button
handler inside your other window that you want to cause an action in the main
window. Is that what you mean so far?
"Access" is such a vague word. The answer really depends on the kind of access
you intend, in other words, the action and reaction sequence you mean to happen.
Guessing very deeply on the basis of what I infer through wild speculation, I
wonder if you might have structured your classes to be a bit too autonomous,
almost as if each one is too separate. Without a behavioral model of your
application it is impossible to really say, but multiwindow-multiclass systems
usually communicate through the usual listeners and by forwarded methods from
the custom class to a contained Swing component.
- Lew