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    Default press a button, get textfield content

    i can get the content of a textfield when pressing enter in the text field, but how do u get the content of the textfield by pressing a button?


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    Default Re: press a button, get textfield content

    Hello chopficaro.

    Welcome to the Java Programming Forums.

    I wrote you this example code to look at. I hope it helps

    import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
    import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
    import javax.swing.JButton;
    import javax.swing.JTextField;
    import javax.swing.JFrame;
    import javax.swing.JPanel;
    import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
     
    public class Chopficaro extends JPanel {
     
    	public Chopficaro(){
     
    		final JTextField txt = new JTextField("Java Programming Forums");
    		txt.setBounds(1, 1, 300, 30);
     
    		JButton button = new JButton(" >> CLICK ME <<");
    		button.setBounds(40, 40, 200, 40);
     
    		setLayout(null);
    		add(txt);
    		add(button);
     
    		[B]// Add action listener to button[/B]
    [B]		button.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
    			public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
     
    				// Execute when button is pressed
    				//System.out.println("You clicked the button");
     
    				String getTxt = txt.getText();
     
    				int messageType = JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE;
     
    				JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, getTxt, "Java Programming Forums!!", messageType);
    			}
    		});[/B]
     
    	}
     
    	public static void main(String[] args) {
     
    		JFrame frame1 = new JFrame("JavaProgrammingForums.com");
    		frame1.getContentPane().add(new Chopficaro());
     
    		frame1.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    		frame1.setSize(310, 130);
    		frame1.setVisible(true);
    	}
     
    }

    Output:



    As you can see, the text in the JTextField is displayed in the popup when you click the button.
    Please use [highlight=Java] code [/highlight] tags when posting your code.
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