pass a control?

[tebathe3]

I'm new to Java (I know VB.Net) and I'm wondering if Java will accept a swing control as a parameter in a method. I have a method in a separate class that does some calculations and I'd like to pass a textarea control to it in order to populate it. I tried doing the following but it didn't seem to recognize the type:

public int AmortTable(float mortPymt_, JTextArea txtArea)
{
}

is this a valid method?

 

[Diancecht]

Maybe you need to import javax.swing.TextArea.

What error do you get?

Cheers,
Dian