Help with ERROR

[Tripmaker]

Hi!

In my 'if' statement I'm wanting to say that if the following three textField are not an empty string then it must execute the statements that I've stipulated. The problem is I keep getting an error in my 'if' statement.

My code looks as follows:

if(loanField3 != "" && loanField4 != "" && loanField5 != "")

the error it gives me is 'incomparable types: javax.swing.JTe xtField and java.lang.Strin g

[JosAH]

Hi!

In my 'if' statement I'm wanting to say that if the following three textField are not an empty string then it must execute the statements that I've stipulated. The problem is I keep getting an error in my 'if' statement.

My code looks as follows:

if(loanField3 != "" && loanField4 != "" && loanField5 != "")

the error it gives me is 'incomparable types: javax.swing.JTe xtField and java.lang.Strin g

A TextField is not a String, that's why your compiler keeps whining. You can
retrieve a String from a TextField by asking for it: TextField.getTe xt()
and you can compare those Strings then but you can't compare Strings for
equality with the '==' operator or the '!=' operator, i.e. you have to use the
String.equals() method for that purpose.

If you just want to check whether or not the Strings are empty you could use
the String.length() operator also.

kind regards,

Jos

[Tripmaker]

A TextField is not a String, that's why your compiler keeps whining. You can
retrieve a String from a TextField by asking for it: TextField.getTe xt()
and you can compare those Strings then but you can't compare Strings for
equality with the '==' operator or the '!=' operator, i.e. you have to use the
String.equals() method for that purpose.

If you just want to check whether or not the Strings are empty you could use
the String.length() operator also.

kind regards,

Jos

Thanks. I'll try that.