Editing JLabel from JTextField in another class

Question

I've looked around but nothing seems to help me out. Basically I'm writing a multithreaded chat program with a gui. The user inputs his name in a textfield in a Login class and hits the login button which directs him to a ClientGUI class. In the client GUI class theres a JLabel at the top that says

"Welcome to the ChatSystem (Username)"

. So what the user input in the textfield in the login class should appear in the JLabel after "Welcome to the ChatSystem" but I can't figure out why it doesn't work. Here's my code:

Login Class:

loginB = new JButton("Login");
main.add(loginB);
loginB.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
    @Override
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        ClientGUI clientgui = new ClientGUI();
        clientgui.setVisible(true);
    }
}

ClientGUI class:

public ClientGUI(){
    Login login = new Login();
    String username = login.usernameTF.getText();
    welcome = new JLabel("Welcome to ChatSystem "+username, SwingConstants.CENTER);

}

I understand that username should really by a JLabel and not a String but I have tried many ways to do this and I can't seem to get my head around this.

Answer 1

That is not going to work like that because login.usernameTF.getText(); is actually a new created object in the ClientGUI constructor...

what I would suggest to do is to overload the constructor and to pass the name as parameter...

Example:

 loginB.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
     @Override
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
     ClientGUI clientgui = new ClientGUI(getTheNameAndpassItHere);
     clientgui.setVisible(true);
            }
        }

---

and then ClientGUI class:

public ClientGUI(String username){

    //Login login = new Login();
   // String username = login.usernameTF.getText();

    welcome = new JLabel("Welcome to ChatSystem "+username, SwingConstants.CENTER);

}