Java Gui help

[sixf00t4]

i have a non-editable text area in frame te. i added a button and i want to be able to have it set the text area visible or not. the text area is called output. wouldnt the command just be

te.output.setVisible = true;

[sixf00t4]

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?