Illegal Forward Reference

[The Soul]

Well I'm creating a simple UI for learning purposes and it's not working out too well. It's a program that has the user input a specific file/directory, click the button and it's deleted. The problem is, I'm getting an error when using the jTextField.

An example:
String filename = "";
filename = TextField1.getText();
File delfile = new File(filename);


The error is on the second line of that code block. I'm all out of ideas...

Note that there isn't a help section here, so I thought this was the most logical section to put this in.

[hypeness]

Well I'm creating a simple UI for learning purposes and it's not working out too well. It's a program that has the user input a specific file/directory, click the button and it's deleted. The problem is, I'm getting an error when using the jTextField.

An example:
String filename = "";
filename = TextField1.getText();
File delfile = new File(filename);


The error is on the second line of that code block. I'm all out of ideas...

Note that there isn't a help section here, so I thought this was the most logical section to put this in.

in java of course i would say put a "catch exeption (e);"? cuz when i got an error i just put that at the bottom of your class... dunno maybe make a crash handler something i dont see any errors.
or make a public void TextField1 {. as i sed i see no errors :rolleyes:

[The Soul]

in java of course i would say put a "catch exeption (e);"? cuz when i got an error i just put that at the bottom of your class... dunno maybe make a crash handler something i dont see any errors.
or make a public void TextField1 {. as i sed i see no errors :rolleyes:

That wouldn't work but thanks for your concern.

[Jesse]

The default name for a text field is jTextField1.

[The Soul]

The default name for a text field is jTextField1.

I changed the variable name.

Anyways, I fixed it.

I just created a seperate method to hold the data being collected:
public String getFileName() {
filename = TextField1.getText();
return filename;
}
File delfile = new File(getFileName());