Ok, got it!
/*Created by John Thrush 06/25/18
WizMapMaker is a video game supplement
that works as a drawing tool. The application creates
an array of buttons which the user can...
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Re: Trying to loop actionListeners together for 56 JButton objects to reduce code size
Ok, got it!
/*Created by John Thrush 06/25/18
WizMapMaker is a video game supplement
that works as a drawing tool. The application creates
an array of buttons which the user can...
Re: Trying to loop actionListeners together for 56 JButton objects to reduce code size
Hi Norm, thanks again for all of your help! It took me some time to process your suggestions but I have been able to get the code down to 203 lines with your help. I'm very happy with the results!
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Re: Trying to loop actionListeners together for 56 JButton objects to reduce code size
Yes, that's where I would like to go with it. I wanted to get you the working version and go from there. When I was testing, I just commented out lines 119-622.
Re: Trying to loop actionListeners together for 56 JButton objects to reduce code size
Yes, ok that's a good possibility. Here is the entire working code. I commented out the possible solution we were collaborating on for now. Thanks again for looking at this. Good help is hard to...
Re: Trying to loop actionListeners together for 56 JButton objects to reduce code size
No, the for loop never executes. I put any print statement in the loop and nothing outputs.
What is the concept I'm missing - inheritance? Do you see the problem anywhere? I'm sorry, I'm a little...
Re: Trying to loop actionListeners together for 56 JButton objects to reduce code size
It looks like all of the oButtonNames[] elements have null values at 104. I put a few System.out.println(oButtonNames[1]); statements outside of the loop, replacing the 1 with other array indexes....
Re: Trying to loop actionListeners together for 56 JButton objects to reduce code size
Thanks, I had to reorganize my resource files. The .java file was in a different folder than the .pngs by mistake. I reran and got a similar error:
Exception in thread "main"...
Re: Trying to loop actionListeners together for 56 JButton objects to reduce code size
Yes, the way the previewLabel works in the long code (an actionListener coded separately for each of the oButtons) is it's like a little thumbnail preview of the last .png button which was clicked...
Re: Trying to loop actionListeners together for 56 JButton objects to reduce code size
WizMapMakerEdit.java:110: error: local variables referenced from an inner class must be final or effectively final
previewLabel.setIcon(new...
Trying to loop actionListeners together for 56 JButton objects to reduce code size
Hi, can someone help me understand what I need to do to reduce my code size so I won't need 56 separate methods to add all of my actionListeners for a JButton array? I'll just include smaller chunks...