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copied!<p>I need a bit of help. I'm just after coming back to programming after being made unemployed.</p> <p>I'm trying to learn Java and I have run into a difficulty.</p> <p>The problem is that I want to call a method that should ask the user for an input by pressing a button. This will return the chouce back to the class that called the method.</p> <pre><code> public class ButtonMain { private static CreateButton cButton; public static void main(String[] args) { cButton = new CreateButton(); cButton.launchButton(); switch(cButton.getSelect()) { case 'a' : System.out.println("German Car"); break; case 'b' : System.out.println("Japanese Car"); break; default : System.out.println("Incorrect Car Selected"); break; } } } </code></pre> <p>The rest of the code is as follows</p> <pre><code>import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import javax.swing.*; public class CreateButton implements ActionListener { private JFrame mainFrame; private JLabel label1; private JButton button1; private JButton button2; private char select = ' '; public CreateButton() { } public void launchButton() { createFrame(); createLabel(); createButton1(); createButton2(); } private void createFrame() { mainFrame = new JFrame("Cars"); mainFrame.setSize(200, 200); mainFrame.setLocation(300, 300); mainFrame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); mainFrame.setVisible(true); mainFrame.setPreferredSize(null); mainFrame.setLayout(new java.awt.GridLayout(3, 1)); } private void createLabel() { label1 = new JLabel("Cars", SwingConstants.CENTER); label1.setSize(200, 100); mainFrame.getContentPane().add(label1, BorderLayout.CENTER); } public void createButton1() { button1 = new JButton("Mercedes"); button1.setSize(200, 50); button1.addActionListener(this); mainFrame.getContentPane().add(button1, BorderLayout.CENTER); } private void createButton2() { button2 = new JButton("Lexus"); button2.setSize(200, 50); button2.addActionListener(this); mainFrame.getContentPane().add(button2, BorderLayout.CENTER); } public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { if (e.getSource() == button1) { select = 'a'; System.out.println(select); } else if (e.getSource() == button2) { select = 'b'; System.out.println(select); } } public char getSelect() { return select; } } </code></pre> <p>What is happening is that the output should read a or b and then whether German or Japanese cars was selected but i'm getting the incorrect car selected.</p>

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