Question

I have a class called Scouting, and it runs a function in a different class ScoutingFormData(different java file in the same package). I want it so that an integer defined in Scouting can be edited from ScoutingFormData. I defined the int:public int SFID=-1; in the main class of Scouting, but I can’t figure out how to edit that int from ScoutingFormData.

Answer 1

Don’t make your instance fields public, use getter and setters.

public int getField() {
    return field;
}
public void setField(int field) {
    this.field = field;
}

This is if your field needs to be an instance field.

If you need a field that belongs to the class ScoutingObject you need to make it static

public static int SFID=-1;

Then you can access it like this:

ScoutingObject.SFID