Creating Textfields by loop

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I have the following list of items in volstextfield which I then pass onto createGUI. I want to create a list of JTextFields with the names vol1HH1,vol1HH2. I get an error Incompatible types: JTextField cannot be converted to volstextfield, please can someone help?

public enum volstextfield {
    vol1HH1, vol1HH2
}

public void createGUI() {
    for (volstextfield direction : EnumSet.allOf(volstextfield.class)) {
        System.out.println(direction);
        direction = new JTextField(5); //i get an error here incompatible types: JTextField cannot be converted to volstextfield
    }
}

JackWhiteIII · Accepted Answer · 2015-07-05 11:30:55Z

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Your direction variable is of enum type. You cannot assign JTextField to enum. Try like

JTextField textfield = new JTextField(direction.getName());

Or use

JTextField textfield = new JTextField();
textfield.setName(direction.getName());

edited Jul 5, 2015 at 11:30

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answered Jul 5, 2015 at 10:59

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4 Comments

Ingram Over a year ago

.getName() does not seem to work I get the error cannot find symbol symbol: method getname() location: variable direction of type volstextfield

Garry Over a year ago

You neeb bit modification in you enum too, try define like vol1hh1("vol1hh1") and add name variable to enum and add toString to return the name. It will work.

Ingram Over a year ago

i did with .name, i am now looking at your suggestion of defining the name to vol1hh1("vol1hh1")

Ingram Over a year ago

I am not clear as to why defining the names like that would be different? or how to do that?

Fevly Pallar · Accepted Answer · 2016-01-01 19:53:07Z

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Enum is a type itself, the closest thing you could do is :

 // The Amount of JTextField is enum' length 
  JTextField direction[] = new JTextField[volstextfield .values().length]; 
        int i=0;

        for ( volstextfield v :volstextfield.values()) {
            direction [i++] = new JTextField(v.name());
        }

edited Jan 1, 2016 at 19:53

answered Jul 5, 2015 at 11:16

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