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Dynamically generated object names!

Hi,

I would like to create a series of auto-generating variable names that can be used to instantaite object depending on an ArrayList size! For example if I want to creat a series jTextArea based on the number of a certain ArrayList, the I would be creating ArrayList.size() number of jTextAreas like

jTextArea1
jTextArea2
jTextArea3
jTextArea4

so that

JTextArea jTextArea( i ) = new JTextArea();

How would I be able to do that??!

for_yan

You would be better off if you have an array of JTextArea

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for_yan

Somthing like this:

JTextArea[] areas = new JTextArea[arraylist.size()];
for(int j=0; j<areas.length; j++){
area[j] = new JTextArea(20);
}

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and also you add them as elements of the array to your container
I did it many times this way - very conveniently

snajalm

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You think this would be the best way and the only way??!

for_yan

In general you can probably indeed create invidual namesdynamically and even say instantite them using
Relection API:
http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/reflect/
but unless you have some very special needs - you don;t want to do it - that will be a big overhead an inconvenience - array is much simpler

for_yan

Definitely would be the only way that peopele normally use in such situation.
You can also use ArrayList of JTextArea's - say if you may change theire number in the process -
but again this is not very typical - array of JTextArea (or other elements) is much more typical

snajalm

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Thanks for_yan for your kind help!

for_yan

You are always welcome.