what is wrong with my code?? URGENT, i have to finish this tonight :S

[EBBOOO]

let me tell you about my program first, the program is to ask the user to enter a number of students. then the same number of textfields must be displayed. the user has to enter students names, and grades for 6 subjects.
when i run this code and add the number of students, the textfields doesn't show up, i don't know why :confused:
by the way, I'm a beginner so there is alot of things that i don't know yet :o
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import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.*;

public class students_grades extends Applet implements ActionListener {
    Label title = new Label("<{This program calculate students grades in 6 subjects}>");
    Label number_of_students = new Label("<{Inter the number of the students}>");
    TextField number_of_students_ = new TextField(5);
    Button View_Table = new Button ("View Table");

    
public void init( )  {
    //setLayout();
        add (title);
        add (number_of_students);
        add (number_of_students_);
        add (View_Table);
        number_of_students_.addActionListener(this);
        View_Table.addActionListener(this);
       
    }   
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) {
   
    // to get the number of students entered by user
   //         String titles [8] = [No. , Student Name, Math, Comp, Salam, Arab, MGT, ORG];
    String number_of_students_text = number_of_students_.getText();
    int number_of_students_int = Integer.parseInt(number_of_students_text);
    
       // define two arrays of textfield
    TextField txtname []= new TextField [number_of_students_int];
    TextField txtgrade [][] = new TextField [number_of_students_int][6];
    
    // define two arrays ===> one for student names, and the other one for students grade
    String students_names [] = new String [number_of_students_int];
    float students_grades [][] = new float [number_of_students_int][6];
    
    // add name text fields
    for (int i=0; i<number_of_students_int; i++)
    {
        this.add (txtname[i]);
    }
    // add grade text fields in 2D array
    for (int i=0; i<number_of_students_int ;i++)
    {
        for (int j=0; j<6 ; j++)
        {
            add (txtgrade[i][j]);
        }
    }
    
    // get text from text fields and save it in the array
    for (int i=0; i<number_of_students_int; i++)
    {
        students_names [i] = txtname[i].getText();
    }
    
    for (int i=0; i<number_of_students_int ;i++)
    {
        for (int j=0; j<6 ; j++)
        {
            String Container = txtgrade[i][j].getText();
            int intContainer = Integer.parseInt(Container);
            students_grades[i][j] = intContainer;
            }
    }
    
    
} // action performed
} // class

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[Fubarable]

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Best of luck

[Norm]

What happens when you execute it? Do you get any error messages in the browser's Java console? Please copy and paste them here if you need help.

[EBBOOO]

can you see the codes now?

import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.*;

public class students_grades extends Applet implements ActionListener {
    Label title = new Label("<{This program calculate students grades in 6 subjects}>");
    Label number_of_students = new Label("<{Inter the number of the students}>");
    TextField number_of_students_ = new TextField(5);
    Button View_Table = new Button ("View Table");

    
public void init( )  {
    //setLayout();
        add (title);
        add (number_of_students);
        add (number_of_students_);
        add (View_Table);
        number_of_students_.addActionListener(this);
        View_Table.addActionListener(this);
       
    }   
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) {
   
    // to get the number of students entered by user
   //         String titles [8] = [No. , Student Name, Math, Comp, Salam, Arab, MGT, ORG];
    String number_of_students_text = number_of_students_.getText();
    int number_of_students_int = Integer.parseInt(number_of_students_text);
    
       // define two arrays of textfield
    TextField txtname []= new TextField [number_of_students_int];
    TextField txtgrade [][] = new TextField [number_of_students_int][6];
    
    // define two arrays ===> one for student names, and the other one for students grade
    String students_names [] = new String [number_of_students_int];
    float students_grades [][] = new float [number_of_students_int][6];
    
    // add name text fields
    for (int i=0; i<number_of_students_int; i++)
    {
        this.add (txtname[i]);
    }
    // add grade text fields in 2D array
    for (int i=0; i<number_of_students_int ;i++)
    {
        for (int j=0; j<6 ; j++)
        {
            add (txtgrade[i][j]);
        }
    }
    
    // get text from text fields and save it in the array
    for (int i=0; i<number_of_students_int; i++)
    {
        students_names [i] = txtname[i].getText();
    }
    
    for (int i=0; i<number_of_students_int ;i++)
    {
        for (int j=0; j<6 ; j++)
        {
            String Container = txtgrade[i][j].getText();
            int intContainer = Integer.parseInt(Container);
            students_grades[i][j] = intContainer;
            }
    }
    
    
} // action performed
} // class

[EBBOOO]

no there is no errors
when i execute it and add the number of the students and press the button, nothing happen!!!!

[Norm]

Are you sure? When I execute it I get Null Pointer exceptions.

Comments:
Defining an array does not put values into the elements of the array. You must do that for every element in the array.
TextField[] tf = new TextField[10]; // defines an array of empty slots
tf[0] = new TextField(); // fill slot 0 the the array with ref to a tf

Your code gets into some advanced layout management. You add components to the applet display and then wait for user input. When you get the input, you want to change the display. To do that you must use the removeAll() method to get rid of the old stuff,
add the new stuff and then call validate() to tell the system to do another layout of your components.


You'll need a new button for the user to use AFTER he has filled in the fields so you can get the data he has entered.

[EBBOOO]

i defined the array as you said, but it shows error in the array!!

[Norm]

Sorry, I don't have my long range glasses on. I can't see either the code or the error.
You'll have to post both of them.

[j2me64]

TextField txtgrade [][] = new TextField[number_of_students_int][6];

for (int j=0; j<6 ; j++)
{
add (txtgrade[i][j]);
}

with the code above, you create arrays of TextField, but the reference of the array is pointing to null! in order to fix that use

        for (int j=0; j<6 ; j++)
        {
        	TextField gradefield = new TextField();
        	txtgrade[i][j] = gradefield;
            add (txtgrade[i][j]);
        }

now, each element of the array is referencing an object of type TextField. apply the same to the other TextFields and for the layout of these fields i would use a gridlayout.