Java Swing button actionEvent

sorry to bother everyone.

Overall problem: I'm trying to open a dialogue box let the user enter something then close it

Issue: - A function is not being called (i think) - The main problem is when i use debug it works fine so Its difficult for me to track down the problem

I'm having trouble with JButtons, it works in debug but not in normal run. this was probably because i was using an infinite loop. someone online suggested i used SwingUtilities but that didn't work (at least i don't think.

/**
 *
 * @author Deep_Net_Backup
 */
public class butonTest extends JFrame  {
String name;
boolean hasValue;

//name things
private JLabel m_nameLabel;
private JTextField m_name;

//panel
private JPanel pane;

//button
private JButton m_submit;

//action listener for the button submit
class submitListen implements ActionListener {
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        submit();
        System.out.println("Test");
    }
}

//constructor
public butonTest(){
    //normal values
    name = null;
    hasValue = false;
    //create the defauts
    m_nameLabel = new JLabel("Name:");
    m_name = new JTextField(25);
    pane = new JPanel();
    m_submit = new JButton("Submit");
    m_submit.addActionListener(new submitListen());
    //

    setTitle("Create Cat");
    setSize(300,200);
    setResizable(false);

    //add components
    pane.add(m_nameLabel);
    pane.add(m_name);

    pane.add(m_submit);

    add(pane);
    //last things
    setVisible(true);
    setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

}

//submit
private void submit()
{
    System.out.println("submit");
    name = m_name.getText();
    hasValue = true;
}

//hasValue
public boolean hasValue()
{
    return(hasValue);

}

//get the text name
public String getName()
{
    return(name);
}

public void close()
{
    setVisible(false);
    dispose();
}

public static void main(String[] args)
{

    /* Test 1
    boolean run = true;
    String ret = new String();
    butonTest lol = new butonTest();

    while(run)
    {
        if(lol.hasValue())
        {
            System.out.println("Done");
            run = false;
            ret = new String(lol.getName());
            lol.close();
        }
    }



    System.out.println(ret);*/

    //Tset 2
    /*
    SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable(){
        @Override
        public void run() {
            butonTest lol = new butonTest();
            if(lol.hasValue())
            {
                System.out.println(lol.getName());
            }
        }
    });*/

}

}

Edit: How its not working: When i run Test the program will print test and submit then it should change the hasValue to true. this will (hopefully) allow the if statement to run to print done. This does not happen.

Edit 2: I have just added a few more lines for further testing 2 prints and this seems to have solved the issue (but this is bad) System.out.println("hasValue " + hasValue); -> to the hasValue() function System.out.println("set to true"); -> submit() function