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Tom,

use the instanceof operator and apply a cast, like this:

for (int i=0;i<components;i++) {
  Component c = object.getComponent(i);
  if (c instanceof JTextField) {
    ((JTextField)c).setText("");
    ...
  } else if (c instanceof ...) {
    ...
  } ...
}

Torsten

Tom Harrop schrieb in Nachricht <3ab10685$1_2@dnews>...
>I currently have a JPanel object that contains multiple text boxes, labels,
>a checkbox and a button.
>At a certain point I want to reset all of the items in the JPanel.  I want
>the text boxes to be blank, the checkboxes unchecked and so forth.  I have
>been trying to use the component method to iterate through the JPanel
>objects, but I can reset the text boxes because .setText() is not
>available.. Anyone have any suggestions on how to do this instead of going
>through all of the object items manually.
>
>Here is the code snippet I tried to use
>
>void clearFields(JPanel object)
> {
>  int components=object.getComponentCount();
>  int val=0;
>  JTextField testTextField = new JTextField();
>  JCheckBox testCheckBox = new JCheckBox();
>    for (int i=0;i<components;i++)
>  {
>    if(object.getComponent(i).getClass() == testTextField.getClass())
>    object.getComponent(i).setText("");  /*This is part that doesn't
>work???? */
>
>    if(object.getComponent(i).getClass() == testCheckBox.getClass())
>    object.getComponent(i).setEnabled(false);
>
>
>  }
> }
>
>