Hi,

I need to create a simple Java application for my coursework, and i'm having a little trouble.

Basically, i've created a class that deals with all the GUI stuff. And part of the GUI requires a popup dialogue window, that allows for the creation of a new entry.

I don't want to deal with any of the database stuff in the GUI class, so I want the function to return the data that was inputted in the dialogue box when you press OK.

Here is a bit of the code I wrote...

code:

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public Contact addContactWindow() {
//opens an add contact dialouge box, returns a Contact object
//SNIP
   
{ //listener for the ok button
  class MenuItemListener implements ActionListener {
   public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) {
    //code goes here
   }
  }
  ActionListener listener = new MenuItemListener();
  okButton.addActionListener(listener);
}

}

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I don't really get the problem but can't you do something like

code:

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contact1.data = textarea.getText();
return contact1.toString();

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You can't do that because the code is executed in the actionPerformed function which can't have a return value.

where do you need the data to be?

Well basically, the way I want it to work is that addContactWindow() will be called from a different class, and then once the user has clicked OK, the class that called it will know what the Contact object that was returned is.

probably better to use JOptionPane.showInputDialog() then...
instead of the dialog with the listener... if that is an option...