Hi! lil help? paintcomponent() and text displayed in same window?

[chimpbacca]

Hi,

I'm not great at programming yet, so i'll cut to the chase

i have a box class that takes in height, length, width and calculates surface area and volume.

I just wanted to show off and draw the cubes and boxes and display their dimensions in a window.

I'm pretty sure you can display text in a JPanel but i really don't know which components to use.

I'd have a JFrame... with a JPanel? split it in two and have one side the text dimensions, on the other side a representation of the cuboid.

Could i pass the measurements taken in as doubles to paintcomponent() and draw the rectangle in proportion to its measurements?

It's a pipe dream seeing as i have like two days to do this but it would be really satisfying.

Any ideas people can give me would be great !

Please ask me to clarify any points to understand my problem, i'd ask my brother he's an IT guy but he's just started a new job for the govt that he has to drive 2 hours to.

Thanks !!

[KevinWorkman]

I'm pretty sure you can display text in a JPanel but i really don't know which components to use.

Sounds like a job for a JLabel or a JTextField.

Could i pass the measurements taken in as doubles to paintcomponent() and draw the rectangle in proportion to its measurements?

No, but you're on the right track. Extend JPanel and override paintComponent(Graphics g). You can't pass anything as parameters to that method, but you can pass them into the constructor (or a setter) in that class, then access them that way.

Recommended reading: Trail: Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing (The Java™ Tutorials)
Painting in AWT and Swing

[chimpbacca]

I hear the JLabel, must be like a label in vb where you say .text = MyString (different command of course) Then use gridLayout maybe...

cool.

i'll check out the reading and see how i go !

Thank You !