ok screw that, it was te.output.setVisible(true);
anyway, i am tring to read in strings that consists of the variable name, an operator, and a value, ex: "id_5 += 30" or "var1 = 20" now i am looking for a way to split that one string into 2 strings (variable name and operator) and an integer (value). string tokenizer doesnt seem to do what i need. anything?