Issues with JList and ButtonHandler

[Geowil]

'Lo everyone, I am having some pretty frustrating issues that I can not seem to get rid of.

The main goal of my program is to make a GUI with buttons that trigger custom events.

C:\Java Tests>javac JGUITest.java JGUITest.java:13: cannot find symbol symbol : class ButtonHandler location: class LabelFrame private ButtonHandler handler = new ButtonHandler(); ^ JGUITest.java:13: cannot find symbol symbol : class ButtonHandler location: class LabelFrame private ButtonHandler handler = new ButtonHandler(); ^ JGUITest.java:18: call to super must be first statement in constructor super("Testing Event Capturing"); ^ JGUITest.java:70: cannot find symbol symbol : constructor JList(int[]) location: class javax.swing.JList jList1 = new JList(intArray);

import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.util.EventObject;


class LabelFrame extends JFrame
{
	private JButton newNumber;
	private JButton dispAll;
	private JButton totalNumber;
	private ButtonHandler handler = new ButtonHandler();


	public void LabelFrame()
	{
		super("Testing Event Capturing");
		setLayout(new FlowLayout());

		Icon testIcon2 = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("icon_test2"));
		Icon testIcon3 = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("icon_test3"));
		Icon testIcon4 = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("icon_test4"));

		newNumber = new JButton("New Number", testIcon2);
		add(newNumber);

		dispAll = new JButton("Display All Numbers", testIcon3);
		add(dispAll);

		totalNumber = new JButton("Total All Numbers",testIcon4);
		add(totalNumber);

		newNumber.addActionListener(handler);
		dispAll.addActionListener(handler);
		totalNumber.addActionListener(handler);
	}
}

class custEvents
{
	int[] intArray = {0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0};
	int total;

	JList jList1;

	public void addNumber()
	{
		if (intArray[9] != 0)
		{
			for (int i = 0; i < intArray.length; i++)
			{
				if (intArray[i] == 0)
				{
					String uInput = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Please enter a number");
					intArray[i] = Integer.parseInt(uInput);
					i = 10;
				}
			}
		}

		else
		{
			JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"The number array is full! (10)", "WARNING!",JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);
		}
	}

	public void displayNumbers()
	{
		jList1 = new JList(intArray);
		jList1.setVisibleRowCount(10);

		//JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,JList1.setVisible(true),"List of Numbers",JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);

		JFrame newFrame = new JFrame("List of Numbers");
		JPanel newPanel = new JPanel();
		newPanel.add(jList1);
		newFrame.add(newPanel);
		newFrame.setSize(400,400);
		newFrame.setVisible(true);
	}

	public void addNumbers()
	{		
		total = 0;

		for (int i = 0; i < intArray.length; i++)
		{
			if (intArray[i] == 0)
			{
				i = 10;
		    }

			else
			{
				total += intArray[i];
			}
		}

		JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"The sum of the numbers in the array are " + total,"Sum of Array",JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);

		total = 0;
	}


	public void error()
	{
		JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Message not detected or not sent!!!","ERROR",JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);
	}

}



class custListener
{
	custEvents cEvents = new custEvents();

	public void actionPreformed(ActionEvent cust)
	{
		if ((cust.getActionCommand()) .equals ("newNumber"))
		{
			cEvents.addNumber();
		}

		else if ((cust.getActionCommand()) .equals ("dispAll"))
		{
			cEvents.displayNumbers();
		}


		else if ((cust.getActionCommand()) .equals ("totalNumber"))
		{
			cEvents.addNumbers();
		}

		else
		{
			cEvents.error();
		}
	}
}


public class JGUITest
{
	public static void main (String args[])
	{
		LabelFrame newFrame = new LabelFrame();

		newFrame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		newFrame.setSize(600,600);
		newFrame.setVisible(true);
    }
}

[jowierun]

sorry - please read next post.

[jowierun]

Hello Geowil.

Your issue starts with this line:

private ButtonHandler handler = new ButtonHandler();

What is a ButtonHandler? It is likely you meant to create a new Class called ButtonHandler which is not anywhere to be found.

[Geowil]

Hello Geowil.

Your issue starts with this line:

private ButtonHandler handler = new ButtonHandler();

What is a ButtonHandler? It is likely you meant to create a new Class called ButtonHandler which is not anywhere to be found.

After taking a break then reading into it a bit more that is what I came to the conclusion of, that I needed and actual inter class for this. I made it and those errors went away, also found out that JList's, as far as array's go, are string only. So I got that error as well, just trying to get it running to test it at the moment.

On top of those I found that buttons do not send their names, but rather the text associated with the buttons, to the event manager, which I find very strange.

My new code:

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;


class LabelFrame extends JFrame
{
	JButton newNumber;
	JButton dispAll;
	JButton totalNumber;

	public LabelFrame()
	{
		super("Testing Event Capturing");
		setLayout(new FlowLayout());

		Icon testIcon2 = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("icon_test2.jpg"));
		Icon testIcon3 = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("icon_test3.jpg"));
		Icon testIcon4 = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("icon_test4.jpg"));

		newNumber = new JButton("New Number", testIcon2);
		add(newNumber);

		dispAll = new JButton("Display All Numbers", testIcon3);
		add(dispAll);

		totalNumber = new JButton("Total All Numbers",testIcon4);
		add(totalNumber);

		ButtonHandler handler = new ButtonHandler();

		newNumber.addActionListener(handler);
		dispAll.addActionListener(handler);
		totalNumber.addActionListener(handler);
	}

	private class ButtonHandler implements ActionListener
	{
		custEvents cEvents = new custEvents();

		public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent event)
		{
			if ((event.getActionCommand()) .equals ("New Number"))
			{
				cEvents.addNumber();
			}

			else if ((event.getActionCommand()) .equals ("Display All Numbers"))
			{
				cEvents.displayNumbers();
			}


			else if ((event.getActionCommand()) .equals ("Total All Numbers"))
			{
				cEvents.addNumbers();
			}

			else
			{
				cEvents.error(event.getActionCommand());
			}
		}
	}
}



class custEvents
{
	String[] stringArray = {"0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0","0"};
	int total;

	JList jList1;

	public void addNumber()
	{
		if ((stringArray[9]).equals ("0"))
		{
			for (int i = 0; i < stringArray.length; i++)
			{
				if ((stringArray[i]) .equals ("0"))
				{
					String uInput = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Please enter a number");
					stringArray[i] = uInput;
					i = 10;
				}
			}
		}

		else
		{
			JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"The array is full! (10)", "Warning!",JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);
		}
	}

	public void displayNumbers()
	{
		jList1 = new JList(stringArray);
		jList1.setVisibleRowCount(10);

		//JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,JList1.setVisible(true),"List of Numbers",JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);

		JFrame newFrame = new JFrame("List of Numbers");
		JPanel newPanel = new JPanel();
		newPanel.add(jList1);
		newFrame.add(newPanel);
		newFrame.setSize(400,400);
		newFrame.setVisible(true);
	}

	public void addNumbers()
	{
		total = 0;

		for (int i = 0; i < stringArray.length; i++)
		{
			if ((stringArray[i]) .equals ("0"))
			{
				i = 10;
		    }

			else
			{
				total += Integer.parseInt(stringArray[i]);
			}
		}

		JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"The sum of the numbers in the array are " + total,"Sum of Array",JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);

		total = 0;
	}


	public void error(String event)
	{
		JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Message not detected or not sent!!!  Recevied " + event,"ERROR",JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE);
	}

}


public class JGUITest
{
	public static void main (String args[])
	{
		LabelFrame newFrame = new LabelFrame();

		newFrame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		newFrame.setSize(600,600);
		newFrame.setVisible(true);
    }
}

And so far it works (for all I know, I have not recompiled since I fixed the check to add a number to the stringArrray, had it only continuing is a 0 was not present in element 9 :D).