Here is an example that would use a TextField component for the name entry,
and a label to re-print the name on the screen.  This example shows AWT
components.  There are similar things for Swing components.

To define the TextField, you would do something like this:

TextField myTextField = new TextField();

To store the value of the text field in another variable, such as a string,
you could do something like this:

String myString = myTextField.toString();

To copy the value from the string variable to a label elsewhere on the form,
you could do something like this:

Label myLabel = Label(myString);

or

Label myLabel = Label();
myLabel.setText(myString);

or

Label myLabel = Label(myTextField.toString());

or

myLabel.setText(myTextField.toString());


There are a variety of ways to do what you are asking.  Each component
usually has a method for getting its value, and many of the text based
things have a "setText" method for setting its value to something.

Hope that helps.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Guerrino Di Minno" <GDiMinno@h...>
To: "Professional Java" <pro_java@p...>
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 2:41 PM
Subject: [pro_java] Question on storing variables ???


> Hi to all...
>
> I'm using Visual J++...
>
> I have a question. I would like to know,
> when I'm entering a person's name like (Mary Thomas),
> and then pressing enter, how can I store this name in a
> variable and then re-print this name on the screen.
>
> Can anyone, please help me.
>
> Thanking you in advance
>
> Gino
>
> > Guerrino Di Minno
> >         Junior Programmer
> >             gdiminno@h...
> >             (xxx) xxx-xxxx  ext. 241
>