Home-Made GUI Object

[billycro]

:confused: Okay so lets say I have the class Combatant. Combatant is made up of a bunch of stats, hp, def, atk, blah blah blah.

I want a gui component that can represent this object, but only one instance. Like it's a combo of a bunch of jlabels. Would extending this class to a JPanel and then adding that panel to that of the Jframe i'm working with be the solution?

ex.
public class Combatant extends JPanel{
JLabel nameLabel,otherLabels;
//=new labelss and that stuff
public Combatant(){
add(nameLabel);
//add the other stuff
}
}

public class Runner{
p. s. v. main(String[] args){
//init a jframe
//init a jpanel
panel.add(new Combatant());
}
}

something like this should give the desired effect

[Fubarable]

It could work, but as they say, the devil's in the details. I recommend that you split the problem up and first create a non-GUI Combatant and in this class try to encapsulate the behaviors and states of a Combatant. After that's done, then consider creating a GUI "view" of the non-GUI object. The fun is really in the experimenting and seeing how it can all possibly fit together.

Best of luck!

[billycro]

well thanks i suppose i'll have to see how this goes in class tomorrow, i'll give the deets of how that all turns out. but if there is an exact solution it would be good =]