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thank that stoped the windows from closing and actually does the replace, but a new error now :P lol

alright then well thank you for your help, i don't have time to do test code and stuff, thanks again

are you running the second set of code i posted? because when i run that one all my windows still close....

do you also do the search and replace?

so i would put in
Gui.displayArea.setText(newString);
but when I do all my windows still close when using the search and replace

oh sorry, I want newString from DialogBox to pass back to displayArea in my GUI

oh sorry the code should be like this



import java.io.*;
import java.util.Scanner;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class Gui extends JFrame...

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