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Thread: Help with Square Shaped Spiral

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    Default Help with Square Shaped Spiral

    I am currently working an Assignment that involves creating a square shaped spiral using loops. I thought I'd figure it out but I found out that the right side of the square spiral is not drawing a line.. Any ideas on how to fix this.. Thanks a lot you guys.

    P.S. I uploaded a picture of my output, if you guys could please look at it to know what I'm talking about or you could instead copy and run the code on your computers ... Thanks for your help..

     
    import java.awt.Graphics; 
    import javax.swing.JPanel;
    import javax.swing.JFrame;
     
     
    public class JAssign4B extends JPanel
    {
     
          public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
          {
     
             int width = getSize().width;
             int height = getSize().height;
     
             int widthCenter = width / 2;
             int heightCenter = height / 2;
     
             for(int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
             {
                g.drawLine(widthCenter + (20 * i), heightCenter + (20 * i), widthCenter + (20 * i), heightCenter + 20 + (20 * i));
                g.drawLine(widthCenter + (20 * i), heightCenter + 20 + (20 * i), widthCenter - 20 - (20 * i), heightCenter + 20 + (20 * i));
     
                //increase width and height here.....
     
                g.drawLine(widthCenter - 20 - (20 * i), heightCenter + 20 + (20 * i), widthCenter - 20 - (20 * i), heightCenter - 20 - (20 * i));
                g.drawLine(widthCenter - 20 - (20 * i), heightCenter - 20 - (20 * i), widthCenter + 20 + (20 * i), heightCenter - 20 - (20 * i));
     
     
             }
     
     
     
     
          }
     
     
     
          public static void main(String[] args)
          {
     
                      JAssign4B panel = new JAssign4B();
     
     
                      JFrame application = new JFrame();
     
                      application.setDefaultCloseOperation( JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE );
     
                      application.add( panel );      
                      application.setSize( 300, 300 ); 
                      application.setVisible( true );     
     
          }
     
     }
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    Default Re: Help with Square Shaped Spiral

    If you reduce your for loop to a single pass ( i < 1 ), you'll see that you're drawing 4 lines each pass when you should be drawing 5. (Kinda obvious without reducing the loops, but it helped me see what was going on.)

    Add the 5th line, and you'll get the desired result. The 5th line is the 3rd line of the for loop shifted 20 to the right of center rather than 20 to the left of center.

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