Send varables to another form

[Mr.BunyRabit]

hey there. Im using Netbeans.
i have a form where there is a button edit.
when i press it, other form opens, and the selected item on the previous page has to be edited in the databse.
So bottom line, i have to get a String / int that i used on the first form, to another form.

Is there a right way to do this?

I tried something but it didnt work... i dont know why though... maybe because i created a new one, which kinde defines the point.. coz then i dint use the one i created the first time.
This was my class, but given, i dont know if this would be the right way to do this... And i would like to use the right way.

my class

String hel = "nope didnt work";

    public void settext(String it)
    {
        hel = it;
    }
    public String gettext()
    {
        return hel;
    }

then on the first form

hspersonnelinvolvedclass set = new hspersonnelinvolvedclass();
        set.settext("this should be the new text");

the second form

hspersonnelinvolvedclass set = new hspersonnelinvolvedclass();
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, set.gettext());

So there i would get the String.. but i get the "it doesnt work" message..

Would apreciate any help.
Thanx Ruan

[stultuske]

that are two different instances of the hspersonnelinvolvedclass-class, which means, for the instance in your second form, you never executed that setText method.

if you want them to work with one instance, you'll have to pass a reference to that instance to the second form.

[Mr.BunyRabit]

that are two different instances of the hspersonnelinvolvedclass-class, which means, for the instance in your second form, you never executed that setText method.

if you want them to work with one instance, you'll have to pass a reference to that instance to the second form.

so... How do i do that? since i then totaly did it like my ass

[stultuske]

is one of these classes used by the other?

[Philippe.Lahaie]

you could refer to other similar posts aswell for help.

heres a post where i posted my opinion on cross form communication.

here

[Mr.BunyRabit]

is one of these classes used by the other?

no, so far it was a simple "test" class just to see if it would work.

[stultuske]

in which case, they don't have direct access to each others variables.
if you still want to 'interchange information', you can store that information in an xml file, and read-write it from both classes, but I doubt that's what you're looking for :)

[Mr.BunyRabit]

in which case, they don't have direct access to each others variables.
if you still want to 'interchange information', you can store that information in an xml file, and read-write it from both classes, but I doubt that's what you're looking for :)

haha thanx. Coz what i have is a form that saves a person to a database. then theres a listbox that when you click on that person you can edit his details or add new details to it (wich requires the creation of a new sql table for data)
so when i click on that person in the listbox, and when you press the add button, a new form opens, and on it you can add the new details for that person. but to be able to add that i have to have that persons name i just clicked on in the listbox. =)
And later on i want to make this server side and what have you so dont know if the xml or notepads will work =)

[stultuske]

ah, now I'm getting a bit of the bigger picture.
what you are describing is one application that consists out of a number of forms, but the code you showed us, were two independent applications.

sure, it's possible the way you describe it, but not the way you coded those examples :)

[Mr.BunyRabit]

ah, now I'm getting a bit of the bigger picture.
what you are describing is one application that consists out of a number of forms, but the code you showed us, were two independent applications.

sure, it's possible the way you describe it, but not the way you coded those examples :)

haha ah yea sorry, guess i could have stated my question a lil better.
Gah, so im not on the right track... Do you think i should invest my time in figuring out how global variables work? or is there a better way?

[Mr.BunyRabit]

i think i found a way to do it. its semi working now.
Because i read that its bad practice to work with global variables, so i found it on Rose Idia how to do it. I just modified their code a bit.
Thank you for your help.

[Mr.BunyRabit]

ah, now I'm getting a bit of the bigger picture.
what you are describing is one application that consists out of a number of forms, but the code you showed us, were two independent applications.

sure, it's possible the way you describe it, but not the way you coded those examples :)

ahh.. i got it to Kind of work...

On my one form i have this code

JFrame mainFrame = PrelogApp.getApplication().getMainFrame();
        HSIncidentRegisterclientinvloved pass = new HSIncidentRegisterclientinvloved("Hello");
        pass.setLocationRelativeTo(mainFrame);
        PrelogApp.getApplication().show(pass);

and on my other one i have a class to get it.

HSIncidentRegisterclientinvloved(String st)

    {   
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, st);
    }

Note that the second form, has a whole gui interface. but when i press the button, it only shows me the jOptionPane with the hello message.(so it works) and then a blank screen(and then it doesnt work).. how would i modify my code to work?

[Mr.BunyRabit]

ahh.. im an idiot.... Fixed it... this is how your second class should look... I forgot the initComponents();

public class mytester extends javax.swing.JFrame {

    /** Creates new form mytester */
    public mytester (String helo) {
        initComponents();
        hel=helo;
    }
     String hel;

Thank you!

[stultuske]

as for Global variables:
it sure won't solve everything because global variables limit you to one value at the time, you'll also want to use (I assume) several ID's and instances of variables, so I think you'll be better of finding a good way to pass parameters between the forms.

[Mr.BunyRabit]

as for Global variables:
it sure won't solve everything because global variables limit you to one value at the time, you'll also want to use (I assume) several ID's and instances of variables, so I think you'll be better of finding a good way to pass parameters between the forms.

Ausm, thank you. Ill remember that from now on.
Have a great day!

[ret801]

This question is solved

[stultuske]

This question is solved

Yes, I thought as much when I saw the "This thread is solved" comment.
What tipped you off?