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Thread: Problem: Grabbing Ints from JTextField

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    Exclamation Problem: Grabbing Ints from JTextField

    private JTextField JTextField1;
     
    ints number1 = JTextField1;
     
    JTextField1 = New JTextField("",10);
    add(JTextField);

    Anyway to do this, The error is Cannot use JTextField for ints, Something like that, I had this error like a week ago and plan to rewrite it.


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    Default Re: Problem: Grabbing Ints from JTextField

    A text field can contain a String. You need to use a text field method to get that String from the text field.
    When you get its contents into a String you can use the Integer class parsing method to convert that String into an int.
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    Default Re: Problem: Grabbing Ints from JTextField

    Is there a more simple way to do this?

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    Default Re: Problem: Grabbing Ints from JTextField

    Can you explain what you are trying to do?
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    Default Re: Problem: Grabbing Ints from JTextField

    Use ints in a jframe? Rather than having to put the information in eclipse itself, i want to be able to put them into a jframe.

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    Default Re: Problem: Grabbing Ints from JTextField

    There is no way for a user to enter int values into a JFrame. A user can put String data into a textfield that is shown in a JFrame.
    Or you could use the Scanner class with a console window and use its nextInt() method to read and convert user input into int values.
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