Solved. Didn't have to do anything with Java, had to do with being stupid (calling wrong control, d'oh!)

MC
 Hi all,

 I 've got this strange (?) problem. I call a method from javascript, setting a private member variable USERENTERED. Within the method, everything goes fine, if I print the variable it has changed. However, as soon as I use the variable in another method, it has changed back to its initial value (which is -1 in my case).

 I don't see what I'm doing wrong, the variable is not local but a member variable. This is the method being called:

public void setUserEnteredValue(String x)
{       
       try
       {           
           double d = Double.parseDouble(x);
           int xPos = (int)((d * FACTOR) + MARGINLEFT - (SCALEMIN * FACTOR));
          
           this.USERENTERED = xPos;
           System.out.println("User entered" + USERENTERED);
                     
       }
       catch (NumberFormatException nfe) { System.out.println("failed to set user input, input is " + x ); }
}

 If the variable is made static, it DOES change, but this is undesired because (of course) all other instances of the applet will have a changed variable. I'm not setting the variable elsewere. Morveover, I'm using this technique for other variables as well and I've got the same problem with those.

 Any ideas?

 MC.