Description Richard Kulp 2005-09-07 10:48:25 EDT

Take a field such as:

static Preferences prefs =  Preferences.systemRoot().node("HistPerfViewer");

This is not parsed and doesn't become a value that can be used later such as:

jlabel.setText(prefs.get("UserName", null));

"prefs" is considered too complicated, which means prefs wasn't evaluated.

If I replaced with:

jlabel.setText(Preferences.systemRoot().node("HistPerfViewer").get("UserName",
null));

instead, the setText will work. Here the entire expression could be parsed.