basically my program runs like this
1. open up configure GUI
2. get congiguration
3. close configure GUI
4. open up main GUI
now when I am testing in netbeans, this works perfectly however, as soon as I compile and try to run the jar file outside of netbeans the 4th step fails. I am at a loss as to why this is happening so if anyone can shed some light on it it would be a great help