New to Java, and just can't fix a little problem

[wishbone34]

Hi, the following is the code that I have written, basically I have a panel with two buttons, one that when clicked generates two random numbers and places them in separate text fields, a text field that lets the user enter the value of the two random numbers multiplied together, and a button that lets the user know if the value entered was right or wrong. Here is my problem...with each click of either button, my random numbers are being refreshed and therefore my resulting answer for the multiplication is changing when I click the answerButton. I tried placing the code for the random number generation inside the if(eventObject. getSource()==qu estionButton) statement but then those variables arent 'seen' by the code in the if statement for the other button. Sorry for the wall of text, and any insight would be appreciaited, thanks!

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent eventObject) {
   //-------------------------------------------------------------------
   Random generator = new Random();
   int leftFieldint = generator.nextInt(11);
   int rightFieldint = generator.nextInt(11);
   int correctanswer = leftFieldint*rightFieldint;
   String coranswer = String.valueOf(correctanswer);
   //-------------------------------------------------------------------
 
   //-------------------------------------------------------------------
   if(eventObject.getSource()==questionButton){
      String leftFieldintTostring = String.valueOf(leftFieldint);
      String rightFieldintTostring = String.valueOf(rightFieldint);
      leftOpField.setText(leftFieldintTostring);
      rightOpField.setText(rightFieldintTostring);
   }
   //-------------------------------------------------------------------
   if(eventObject.getSource()==answerButton){  
      String answerFieldtext = answerField.getText();
      String answerFieldtexttrim = answerFieldtext.trim();
      int answerFieldtextlength = answerFieldtexttrim.length();
      if(answerFieldtextlength<=0){
         resultField.setText("Please give an answer!");
      }
      int useranswer = Integer.parseInt(answerFieldtexttrim);
      if(useranswer==correctanswer)
         resultField.setText("Correct!");
      else
         resultField.setText("Sorry! The answer was " + coranswer);
   }

[Ganon11]

First, when posting questions with code, please use [code] tags. It's the # symbol in the editing window. I've added them to your post.

Now, could you possibly make the random number values global variables? When the questionButton is hit, you'd assign them random values, and when the answer button is hit, you check if the answer is correct.