Question

I am writing a program that contains a JButton. Every time the button is clicked, a new JTextField is added to a JPanel.

My problem is that, after the user has created all the JTextFields and filled them with information, I need to get the text of each field. How can I get access to the JTextFields when they are dynamically generated, as they don’t have instance names? Is there a better way to get the text of each one, without knowing their instance name.

Here is the code of the actionPerformed event of the JButton…

private void jButton4ActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {                                         
    JTextField x = new JTextField();
    x.setColumns(12);
    p.add(x); 
    validate();
}

Answer 1

You say you want to get the text from each field. So, when you create the new instances x, why don’t you keep a collection of them, such as adding the JTextFields to an ArrayList?

Alternatively, assuming that p is a JPanel, you should be able to get all the children, which would be the JTextFields that you’re adding. Try using getComponents() like so…

Component[] children = p.getComponents();
for (int i=0;i<children.length;i++){
    if (children[i] instanceof JTextField){
        String text = ((JTextField)children[i]).getText():
    }
}