Initialization Problem of CheckBoxes

[fatabass]

public class MainFrame extends JFrame{

	MainFrame()
	{
		//I have some code until here that is ok..
		JPanel upperLeftPanel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(4,3));
		centerPanel.add(upperLeftPanel);
		
		MyCheckBox testing = new MyCheckBox();
		
		for(int i=0;i<6;i++)
		{
			upperLeftPanel.add(testing.myCheckBoxArrayList.get(i));
		}
		
		this.setVisible(true);

public class MyCheckBox extends JCheckBox
{
	ArrayList<JCheckBox> myCheckBoxArrayList;
	
	MyCheckBox()
	{
		myCheckBoxArrayList = new ArrayList<JCheckBox>();
		
		for(int i=0;i<6;i++)
		{
			myCheckBoxArrayList.add(i, new MyCheckBox());
		}
	}
}

When I try to run this I get:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StackOverflowError
at java.util.Hashtable.get(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.UIDefaults.getFromHashtable(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.UIDefaults.get(Unknown Source)
at javax.swing.MultiUIDefaults.get(Unknown Source)
... and many more..

Any help ?
What am I doing wrong here ?

[pbrockway2]

public class MyCheckBox extends JCheckBox
{
    ArrayList<JCheckBox> myCheckBoxArrayList;  // <-- (1)
     
    MyCheckBox()
    {
        myCheckBoxArrayList = new ArrayList<JCheckBox>();
         
        for(int i=0;i<6;i++)
        {
            myCheckBoxArrayList.add(i, new MyCheckBox()); // <-- (2)
        }
    }
}

Every instance of MyCheckBox contains a collection of checkboxes (1). And you put six new MyCheckBox instances into that collection (2). But each new MyCheckBox instance you put into that collection will have its own collection and so on. You get into an infinite loop creating more and more MyCheckBox instances.

You can check this with:

MyCheckBox()
{
    System.out.println("Creating a MyCheckBox instance");
    myCheckBoxArrayList = new ArrayList<JCheckBox>();
    // etc

I don't know what myCheckBoxArrayList is supposed to represent. But ask yourself whether whatever it represents is the sort of thing that is a property of a check box. If it is not, then it belongs somewhere else.

[fatabass]

Thanks, I was just going to answer my own question.

Thanks for your time..

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