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    Default Constructor help

    hey im needing a bit of help with a little project im working on so i hoping some one could push me in the right direction.

    Basically, I'm creating a matching pairs game. (4 pairs of matching cards, the user has to find the matching pairs, simple enough right?).

    Each card will be represented by a JButton and ImageIcon, then when the image is clicked i'll use an event handler to change from the back to the face of the card. Then i'll use another class to compare the cards, if they match the user scored a hit if not they score a miss, then this will all be put in a GUI.

    I created a 'Card' class and im assuming im going to use a constructor method to create each individual card (inc JButton). What i'm thinking is this..


    Code(int i, String name, String imgName, String location) {
        int value = i;   // value of card for comparison
        ImageIcon imgname = new ImageIcon(location);
        JButton name = new JButton(imgName);
    }

    where int i will be a value assigned to each pair so i can compare them with an if statement, String name will be the name of the button, String imgName will be the ImageIcon name and String location will the image filename

    Then once all the the cards are created i'll put them in a JPanel and use GridLayout to set them out like cards dealt on a table.....

    Now i'm pretty sure what im doing is wrong but i after much research and mining through pages in textbooks i still can't find out why. Any help would be much appretiated.

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    Default Re: Constructor help

    In the code statement, it's meant to say

    Cards(....) {
    .
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    Default Re: Constructor help

    Can you explain your problem? Do you get error messages? If so, please post them.

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    Default Re: Constructor help

    One problem I found, in this code:

    JButton name = new JButton(imgName);

    particularly the

    JButton name

    part. You are defining (or trying to define) the variable "name" as a JButton, but it is already define as a String in your parameter variable list:

    public Card(int i, String name, String imgName, String location)

    Also, (I'm not 100% sure, but) I think your constructor has to be declared as public.

    I don't know if I understand you correctly, but I think you're trying to name a variable in your code based on another String, which I'm pretty sure you cannot do. For example, if I get the user's input (say it's "cake"), I don't think there's a way to name a variable in my code "cake" solely based on the user's (or coder's) String-based input.

    Hopefully this helped...

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