Question

I’m new in netbeans and java swing, but also confused. I put some JLabel’s from drag and drop in netbeans with some text, and now I want to change that text from the code, and I’m getting error non-static variable can not be referred from static context.
help

FirstFrame f = new FirstFrame();
f.labSifra.setText("aaaa");

I tried this and when I start app JLabel is still with the old text

Answer 1

Because you try to modify your JLabel from static void main

public static void main(String[] args) {
 //NetBeans GUI Init
}

And somewhere in your code generated from NetBeans you have:

private javax.swing.JLabel jLabel1;

If you drop for example JButton into form builder and double click it you will have method:

private void jButton1ActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
    // Here you can change text of JLabel.
  jLabel1.setText("bla bla");
}

You can change defualt scope/modifier of jLabel1 by right click over GUI Component then Properties -> Code -> Variable Modifiers