Someone from stackoverflow helped me with my code for buttons by giving me the right code that's also more appropriate... But the problem is I want to use this code in a hangman program, when someone clicks on the button it must scan a word and print either "Yes, the letter is in the word" or "NO, the letter is not in the word"
I came across some code in stackoverflow that does that, but I have no idea how to adapt that persons code to my button code
The code for creating buttons(as I got it):
public CharSearch(){
super(BoxLayout.Y_AXIS);
for(char i = 'A'; i <= 'Z'; i++){
String buttonText = new Character(i).toString();
JButton button = getButton(buttonText);
add(button);
}
}
public JButton getButton(final String text){
final JButton button = new JButton(text);
button.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "You have clicked: "+text);
//If you want to do something with the button:
button.setText("Clicked"); // (can access button because it's marked as final)
}
});
return button
and then the code I found (I'll also post the link):
if(original.indexOf(button)!=-1){
JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(panel, "Your word does contain" + button );
}
else{
JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(panel, "There is no" + button );
}
How can I check if a single character appears in a string?
Question is how do I make the two codes work together, I Have tried fusing them but then i get errors with the indexOf at
if(original.indexOf(button)!=-1){
I'll also post my full code:
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public final class CharSearch extends Box{
int i =0;
int error = 0;
static JPanel panel;
String original = "Dinosaur";
JLabel label = new JLabel();
String secret = new String(new char[original.length()]).replace('\0', '-');
public CharSearch(){
super(BoxLayout.Y_AXIS);
for(char i = 'A'; i <= 'Z'; i++){
String buttonText = new Character(i).toString();
JButton button = getButton(buttonText);
add(button);
}
}
public JButton getButton(final String text){
final JButton button = new JButton(text);
button.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "You have clicked: "+text);
//If you want to do something with the button:
button.setText("Clicked"); // (can access button because it's marked as final)
}
});
return button;
if(original.indexOf(button)!=-1){
JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(panel, "Your word does contain" + button );
}
else{
JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(panel, "There is no" + button );
}
}
public static void main(String[] args){
EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable(){
public void run(){
JFrame frame=new JFrame();
frame.setDefaultCloseOperation( JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE );
frame.setContentPane(new CharSearch());
frame.pack();
frame.setVisible(true);
new CharSearch();
}
});
}
}
