getText() question

[Mike Brown]

I hope I am not exceeding my limit of questions here. I appreciate the help so much. This will be my last question tonight I promise.Can somebody tell me where I went wrong on this. I just want to take the input from the textbox and display it with the paint method when the user clicks the button.

import javax.swing.*; 
import java.awt.*; 
import java.awt.event.*; 
public class practice5 extends JApplet implements ActionListener 
{ 
   JLabel fLbl = new JLabel("First Name"); 
   JTextField fText = new JTextField("",12); 
   String fIn = fText.getText(); 
   JButton pu**** = new JButton("Push"); 
   public void init() 
   { 
      Container con = getContentPane(); 
      con.setLayout(new FlowLayout() ); 
      con.add(fLbl); 
      con.add(fText); 
      con.add(pushit); 
      pushit.addActionListener(this); 
   } 

   public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) 
   { 
      Object source = e.getSource(); 
      if (source == pushit) 
      { 
         Graphics msg = getGraphics(); 
         msg.drawString(fIn,10,190); 
      } 
   } 
}

I edited your code to include the UBB Code Tags to make your code easier to read.
[ October 26, 2003: Message edited by: Gregg Bolinger ]

[Paul Stevens]

You set the text field value to a string at compile time. It's value at that time was an empty string. Move getting the value to your action performed method.
There are no limits to questions.

[Mike Brown]

Thanks Paul, I remember now that strings are immutable so the way I had it couldnt possibly work.

[Gregg Bolinger]

I hope I am not exceeding my limit of questions here.
That can never happen.