accessing widgets inside a GWT element
- by flyingcrab
I want to access the text elements inside this textbox in GWT from the main method (where I call it like this)
DialogBox aBox =  newCandidatePop.buildNewElecPopup();
    aBox.center();
    aBox.getWidget();
    MiscUiTools.newCandidateHandler(aBox.firstName, aBox.surName);
in newCandidateHandler i want to attach a click handler to the two text boxes
However, the above doesnt quite work - I cant get access to the aBox.firstName elements because they are static methods -- I am wondering what is best practice, how would you code something like this up? 
static TextBox firstName = new TextBox();
    static TextBox surName = new TextBox();
    static DialogBox box;
//  public newCandidatePop() {
//      box = buildNewElecPopup();
//  }
    static public DialogBox buildNewElecPopup() {
        DialogBox box = new DialogBox();
        box.setAutoHideEnabled(true);
        box.setText("Add a New Candidate");
        box.setAnimationEnabled(true);
        box.setGlassEnabled(true);
        Grid dialogGrid = new Grid(2, 3);
        dialogGrid.setPixelSize(250 , 125);
        dialogGrid.setCellPadding(10);
        dialogGrid.setWidget(0, 0, new HTML("<strong>First Name</strong>"));
        dialogGrid.setWidget(0, 1, firstName);
        dialogGrid.setWidget(1, 0, new HTML("<strong>Surname</strong>"));
        dialogGrid.setWidget(1, 1, surName);
        box.add(dialogGrid);
    return box;
    }