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Void not allowed here

I'm trying to work out a way of creating a JTextfield dynamically without assigning it to a variable. 

panel.add(new JTextField("hello"));

The code above works just fine, but when I try and manipulate like below the compiler says Void not allowed here. I'm a beginner and I know this is probably something simple, please help me out.

panel.add(new JTextField("hello").setForeground(Color.yellow));
Solution

  • You may define your own constructor, so that you can chain those calls together, although I don't know if it's worth the trouble, just to avoid a variable.

    private JTextField newColoredTextField(String s, Color c) {
    JTextField tf = new JTextField(s);
    tf.setForeground(c);
    return tf;
}

    You may then use it like so:

    panel.add(newColoredTextField("hello", Color.yellow));