Passing a Value between Two Separate Classes

Hi, i'd like to create a dialogBox that has a Textfield and a button. When the button is clicked, whatever is entered in the TextField gets passed into a string variable where i can use for processing.
However, the following code seems to always return null????
 
The first class below creates the dialog box, applies the actionlistener and should pass the value.
The second class is the actionlistener class.
 
1) I would like my returnTextDialog method to continue as is being a static method.
2) I do not want to use inner classes.
 
Thanks
 

My first class is:
 
public class proccessingDialog extends Applet  {
 
    private static String Result;
    private static TextField resultBox;
 
  public static String returnTextDialog (Frame parent, String question)
  {
 
    Dialog d = new Dialog(parent, true);
    d.add("Center", new Label(question));
    Panel p = new Panel();
    d.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
 
    resultBox = new TextField(30);
    p.add(resultBox);
 
     Button ok = new Button("ok");
     p.add(ok);
 
    ResultAction ra = new ResultAction(parent,Result,resultBox);
   
 resultBox.addActionListener(ra);
 ok.addActionListener(ra);
 
    d.add("South", p);
    d.setLocation(100, 200);
    d.pack();
    d.show();
 
    return Result;
   
  }
}
 

My second class is:
 
public class ResultAction implements ActionListener
{
    Window Frame;
    private String Result;
    private TextField resultBox;
 
public ResultAction (Window Frame,String Result,TextField resultBox)
{
    this.Frame = Frame;
    this.Result = Result;
    this.resultBox = resultBox;
}
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
{
      Result = resultBox.getText();
      Frame.dispose();
      Frame.hide();
}
}
 
When i go ahead and type in another class something like:
 
System.out.println(parent, "Enter Name:");
 
the result is always null.