So i have a java GUI with a bunch of labels. I am using the netbeans gui creator to create it so i can not have an array of JLabels so i have to create them 1 at a time. I want to loop through them and set the text of each one seperately. If all the JLabel instances are jLabel1, jLabel2, jLabel3 etc, is there a way to have java create this instance name and call the setText() method for that instance. I thought about taking the word "jLabel" as a string and i can concatenate i from the loop to the end to product jLabel1, jLabel2, etc but then how do i make this string call the method of jLabel1 or jLabel2 or whatever it is. Is this possible? Thanks.

ok so i have some questions like the

Object o = m.invoke(t, new Locale(args[1], args[2], args[3]));


it says the first parameter is the instance of the object that the method will be invoked from. And it declares t as a new instance of a class. However, i already have the instances i just want to invoke a method on each of them but the instance names increase by 1 each time, so can i pass in a string where t is, that string being "jLabel1" and then have it take it as an instance of JLabel named jLabel1? I am confused about how i apply this to what i want cause this is about getting methods from a class and creating new instances.

Quote:Original post by cwl157
So i have a java GUI with a bunch of labels. I am using the netbeans gui creator to create it so i can not have an array of JLabels so i have to create them 1 at a time.

That's why I prefer doing my GUIs in code. It's really not that hard and it gives you so much more control...

no its impossible for me to do that. Maybe now that i have used the GUI builder a little i could understand it more, but i tried all that once and spent about 2 days lost in all the container classes and what not.