... So if I'm understanding you correctly, the graph code should look like the following? Because it was like this before and I thought it wouldn't work for some reason and changed a lot of variables. I thought they had to be principalAmts, interestAmts.
//creates class for graphpanel
class GraphPanel extends JPanel
{
final int
HPAD = 60,
VPAD = 40;
int[] data;
Font font;
float[] principleData;
float[] interestData;
public GraphPanel(float[] p, float[] i)
{
principleData = p;
interestData = i;
font = new Font("lucida sans regular", Font.PLAIN, 16);
setBackground(Color.white);
}
protected void paintComponent(Graphics g)
{
super.paintComponent(g);
Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,
RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
g2.setFont(font);
FontRenderContext frc = g2.getFontRenderContext();
int w = getWidth();
int h = getHeight();
// scales
float xInc = (w - HPAD - VPAD) / (interestData.length - 1);//11f; //distance between each plot
float yInc = (h - 2*VPAD) / 10f;
int[] dataVals = getDataVals(); //min and max values for y-axis
float yScale = dataVals[2] / 10f;
// ordinate (y - axis)
g2.draw(new Line2D.Double(HPAD, VPAD, HPAD, h - VPAD));
// plot tic marks
float x1 = HPAD, y1 = VPAD, x2 = HPAD - 3, y2;
for(int j = 0; j < 10; j++)
{
g2.draw(new Line2D.Double(x1, y1, x2, y1));
y1 += yInc;
}
// labels
String text; LineMetrics lm;
float xs, ys, textWidth, height;
for(int j = 0; j <= 10; j++)
{
text = String.valueOf(dataVals[1] - (int)(j * yScale));
textWidth = (float)font.getStringBounds(text, frc).getWidth();
lm = font.getLineMetrics(text, frc);
height = lm.getAscent();
xs = HPAD - textWidth - 7;
ys = VPAD + (j * yInc) + height/2;
g2.drawString(text, xs, ys);
if(j == 0) g2.drawString("Principle", xs, ys - 15);
}
// abcissa (x - axis)
g2.draw(new Line2D.Double(HPAD, h - VPAD, w - VPAD, h - VPAD));
// tic marks
x1 = HPAD; y1 = h - VPAD; y2 = y1 + 3;
for(int j = 0; j < interestData.length; j++)
{
g2.draw(new Line2D.Double(x1, y1, x1, y2));
x1 += xInc;
}
// labels
ys = h - VPAD;
for(int j = 0; j < interestData.length; j++)
{
text = String.valueOf(j + 1);
textWidth = (float)font.getStringBounds(text, frc).getWidth();
lm = font.getLineMetrics(text, frc);
height = lm.getHeight();
xs = HPAD + j * xInc - textWidth/2;
g2.drawString(text, xs, ys + height);
if( j == (interestData.length - 1)) g2.drawString("Year", (int)w /2 , ys + height + 15);
}
// plot data
float yy2 = 0, yy1 = 0, xx2 = 0, xx1;
x1 = HPAD;
xx1 = HPAD;
yScale = (float)(h - 2*VPAD) / dataVals[2];
for(int j = 0; j < interestData.length; j++)
{
g.setColor(Color.blue);
y1 = VPAD + (h - 2*VPAD) - (principleData[j] - dataVals[0]) * yScale;
g2.fillOval((int)x1, (int)y1 - 2, 5, 5);
if(j > 0)
g2.draw(new Line2D.Double(x1, y1, x2, y2));
x2 = x1;
y2 = y1;
x1 += xInc;
g.setColor(Color.red);
yy1 = VPAD + (h - 2*VPAD) - (interestData[j] - dataVals[0]) * yScale;
g2.fillOval((int)xx1, (int)yy1 - 1, 5, 5);
if(j > 0)
g2.draw(new Line2D.Double(xx1, yy1, xx2, yy2));
xx2 = xx1;
yy2 = yy1;
xx1 += xInc;
}
}
private int[] getDataVals()
{
int max = Integer.MIN_VALUE;
int min = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
int j = interestData.length -1;
max = (int)principleData[j];
min = (int)interestData[j];
int span = max - min;
return new int[] { min, max, span };
}
}
}
About the other changes... I kinda knew but forgot to make corrections and take out the comments.
One other thing... I wanted the input from the ComboBox to insert into the TextBoxes and then be calculated so I entered the following under ActionEvents:
java:170: setText(java.lang.String) in javax.swing.text.JTextComponent cannot be applied to (int)