accessing a variable from another class

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You could make the variables public fields:

  public int width;
  public int height;

  DrawFrame() {
    this.width = 400;
    this.height = 400;
  }

You could then access the variables like so:

DrawFrame frame = new DrawFrame();
int theWidth = frame.width;
int theHeight = frame.height;

A better solution, however, would be to make the variables private fields add two accessor methods to your class, keeping the data in the DrawFrame class encapsulated:

 private int width;
 private int height;

 DrawFrame() {
    this.width = 400;
    this.height = 400;
 }

  public int getWidth() {
     return this.width;
  }

  public int getHeight() {
     return this.height;
  }

Then you can get the width/height like so:

  DrawFrame frame = new DrawFrame();
  int theWidth = frame.getWidth();
  int theHeight = frame.getHeight();

I strongly suggest you use the latter method.

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