Problem with Methods

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Ed - 10 May 2006 19:22 GMT

I have a Class (class PublishStats) containing 2 methods. Method 1
(UpdateFields) formats text and inserts it into a DefaultStyledDocument
named, for example "wage1". Method 2 (PublishStats) uses a gridbagLayout to
display "wage1". This does not work opviously because wage1 being in method
1 is not availble to code in method 2.

Can someone suggest how I can overcome my problem? Is there a Global option
for a DefaultStyledDocument or something like that? Or is there a way to
call an object in method 1 from method 2? Help please! (There will be 25 of
these entries.)

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Mark Thomas - 10 May 2006 19:52 GMT

> I have a Class (class PublishStats) containing 2 methods. Method 1
> (UpdateFields) formats text and inserts it into a DefaultStyledDocument
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> call an object in method 1 from method 2? Help please! (There will be 25 of
> these entries.)

You need to appreciate the difference between local variables (those
declared inside a method) and instance variables (those declared outside
the method). Any variable that needs to exist from one method call to
another should be an instance variable. Note that this is in no way
'Global' - it is just the way objects encapsulate their state.

Mark

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Oliver Wong - 10 May 2006 20:02 GMT

>I have a Class (class PublishStats) containing 2 methods. Method 1
>(UpdateFields) formats text and inserts it into a DefaultStyledDocument
[quoted text clipped - 6 lines]
> way to call an object in method 1 from method 2? Help please! (There will
> be 25 of these entries.)

Perhaps you can make wage1 be a field of the PublishStats class so that
method 1 and method 2 can both access it. Hard to say if this will yield a
good OO design without seeing the rest of your code.

- Oliver

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Ed - 11 May 2006 14:26 GMT

Thnaks to both of you - very helpful

Ed

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