Is this bad form?

[Brandt Charles]

I'm completing an assignment for class which will involve a JFrame with multiple buttons, textfields, etc. Is it acceptable naming convention to name the objects btnHelp (for the help button), txtInput(for the textfield where text is displayed)? I believe this is referred to as the Hungarian notation. Even if it's not, I remember this being the convention for VB 5, and I thought it was easy to identify what sort of component you were dealing with in the code. However, I recall my instructor grumbling about "not being Hungarian" or something, so if it's considered bad coding I would like to know. So, is this one of the accepted naming conventions or not?

Thanks,

Brandt

[fred rosenberger]

i'm sure people will argue this one for days. however, according to the JavaRanch style guide, it should not be used.

[Paul Clapham]

Guides or no guides, you almost never see it used in Java code in the wild. Pick any open-source project at random and download its source code, I will bet long odds that it does not use Hungarian notation. If "acceptable" means "what everybody does", that should take care of "acceptable".

[Marilyn de Queiroz]

If you work for Microsoft, it's an accepted convention. If you work for almost anyone else, it's frowned upon.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

But you'll very often see

JButton helpButton = ...