Java Programming

Hi There,

I am having a bit of trouble understanding textbox's in GUI's, what i want to do is to assign the value in the userName textbox to a String variable and the same with the password... here is the code for the username section.

					userName = new JTextField();
					jPanel1.add(userName);
					userName.setBounds(164, 109, 123, 21);
					userName.addKeyListener(new KeyAdapter() {
						public void keyTyped(KeyEvent evt) {
							
						}

and here is the code for the password section

password = new JPasswordField();
					jPanel1.add(password);
					password.setBounds(165, 143, 122, 21);

I am using Jigloo for the GUI and really dont understand GUI's well.

Thanks