Thread: Question about classes...

Hey, I've finally almost finished my Java class at school and I've started going off on my own trying to learn how to program various things. I'm currently trying to find out how to run a specific method of a class from another class. I attempted to look up how to do this but I must be searching with the wrong terms or something.

Example:

-I open up the cmd and start up First.class
-Somewhere in First.class it may need to run a method from Second.class, maybe to do a calculation or something. (This is probably a bad example...)

How would I go about running a specific method from Second.class through First.class?

Another question that I just thought of while typing up the above question is; Can I, if the above question is possible to do, move varibles and their values from one class to another and how would I go about doing that?




Thanks in advance for any help, tutorial links are also welcome!

Originally Posted by Norm

How long a course was it? How did it not cover these topics?

Get a reference to Second class and use it to call the method:
refToSecondClass.theMethodToCall();


To move variables from one source to another, use an editor. Cut the lines defining the variables out of one source file and paste them into the other file.

It's a 5 month long grade 12 online course. So-far it's covered Running Java Programs, Data Types, Working with Variables, Input and Output, Branches, Loops, OOP, Applets and Animation, Strings and the two sections I have left to do are Arrays & OOP Designing with Inheritance. The course seems a bit lacking, but it's taught me how to read the code and make basic programs.

Thanks for the help, as for the last part where you say to CnP the variables from file to file; That would work if the variables are static, but what if they keep changing and the Second.class needs the latest values while First.class is running? (sorry if I misunderstood what you meant there.)

Edit:
So, to call a certain method I'd type notSureAboutThisPart.Main(); to call the main method of the second class?