awt buttons

I am a student and learning java. I have written a program for a coursework, it includes 2 buttons (Submit & Reset). I would like the submit button to have 2 possible course of action depending on a checkBoxGroup button being selected.

I have tried to write an if...

if(cbg.equals(false)

.....setText("Error");

else

.....setText("submitted");

I have found through trial and error that this is wrong, can anyone point me in the right direction?

[491 byte] By [dadofsixa] at [2007-10-2 12:57:42]