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Reputation: 175

How do I display the data from a JTextField into a JTextArea?

How do I display the data from a JTextField into a JTextArea?

I'm trying to take input from four JTextField and show them in a JTextArea when a button is clicked. I have the ActionListener working. I am just unsure how to get the input to the JTextArea.

My JTextArea is called 'ShowActions'. And I am getting some lines of code appearing in the JTextArea. But they are not the inputs I desired so bad.....

Can someone please point me in the right direction please?

private JPanel JPanel1 (){

JP1 = new JPanel();

//Style JP1
JP1.setLayout(new GridLayout(8, 2));
JP1.setBackground(Color.RED);
JP1.setBorder(new EmptyBorder(20, 20, 20, 20));

//Make bits and name them       
heading1 = new JLabel ("Add Landlord");
Font font = new Font("Serif", Font.ITALIC + Font.BOLD, 28);
heading1.setFont(font);
spacer1 = new JLabel ("           ");
LLNameT = new JLabel ("Enter Landlord name");
LLName = new JTextField(30);
LLAddressT = new JLabel ("Enter Landlord Address ");
LLAddress = new JTextField(40);
LLPhoneT = new JLabel ("Enter Landlod Phone No.");
LLPhone = new JTextField(10);
LLbankDeetsT = new JLabel ("Enter Landlod Bank details");
LLbankDeets = new JTextField(10);
sub1 = new JButton("Submit"); 

//Add bits to panel 
JP1.add(heading1);
JP1.add(spacer1);
JP1.add(LLNameT); 
JP1.add(LLName);
JP1.add(LLAddressT);
JP1.add(LLAddress); 
JP1.add(LLPhoneT);
JP1.add(LLPhone); 
JP1.add(LLbankDeetsT );
JP1.add(LLbankDeets); 
JP1.add(sub1);

//Set Action Listener
event1  JP1sub1 = new event1();
sub1.addActionListener(JP1sub1);

return(JP1);
}   

//Activate ActionListener
public class event1 implements ActionListener{

     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent JP1sub1){

     ShowActions.setText(LLName + "\n" + LLAddress + "\n" + LLPhone + "\n" + LLbankDeets);
}

}

Upvotes: 0

Views: 876

Answers (1)

Roan
Roan

Reputation: 1206

You are very close you need to do one more thing and that is getting the tekst from the labels and textfield by calling getText().

 public class event1 implements ActionListener{

     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent JP1sub1){
         ShowActions.setText(LLName.getText() + "\n" + LLAddress.getText() + "\n" + LLPhone.getText() + "\n" + LLbankDeets.getText());
     }
 }

Hope this helps :)

Upvotes: 1

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