I'm currently working on a first year university project and I have a problem, although I doubt it's a very complicated one, but I've been searching and I just can't find a suitable answer to it.

The problem concerns two classes. A gui class (class1) and another class (class2).

I have a JTextField in class1 and am trying to pass through the .getText() value to class2 and store it in a String type variable.

The current code I'm trying to achieve this with is the following:

 (Class1)
private JTextField textField = new JTextField("Something");
    ...
public String getTextFieldString() {
      return textField.getText();
  }

 (Class2)
    private c1 Class1 = new Class1();
    private String s = new String();
    ...
    s = c1.getTextFieldString();

I'm pretty new to coding, I've read that maybe I need to pass through an argument somewhere and I assume that's because textField is not static in itself, it changes when somebody enters a new value. (sorry for stating the obvious there.)

Anyway, help is appreciated. Thanks a lot!