JAVA Swing textField creating function

[ZuluGod]

So I have an assignment requiring the use of lots of textboxes using the java Swing library. Unfortunatly the code to create textfeilds is quite long winded. I would like to be able to call a function

textField(name, grid1);

which then goes and runs a function

public void textField(JTextField text, JPanel gridName){
        text = new JTextField(32);
        gridName.add(text);
}

however the function doesnt like the line textField(name, grid1); giving the error 'name has private access in component'.

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this?

[Ningols]

Is name local? Or is it declared in private in another class?

If so, you need to add a getter in that other class

[ZuluGod]

Name is meant to be a string, but it wont convert string to JTextField