Making Controls public/Global in Netbeans with Java.

Question

So I have multiple forms for my current project and I have made classes that interact and do some utility work behind these forms.

However I am unable to access controls on other forms.

Say I have a text control on Form A and I want to use a class that receives/manipulates data from a completely different Form B.

My classes and Form B cannot see this control.

I have tried going to properties code variable modifiers set to "Public"

Unfortunately this does not seem to do the trick. Any ideas? I appreciate the help!!

Answer 1

I managed to solve the problem if anyone was curious.

Instead of being lazy I create public methods that allow me to communicate with them via setters and getters.

Thank you for anyone who tried to solve this for me.