Remove repeated code

[FraggleBoDiddly]

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[Fubarable]

So ignore all the recommendations given to you at the Sun Java forums and cross post the same question here? That doesn't make a lot of sense.

[FraggleBoDiddly]

Realistically, my post in the sun java forums was not as clear as it was here, but I couldn't change it. I was hoping for some cross referencing rather than some criticism, but if that's what you want to dish out, go ahead.

[Fubarable]

Please understand though that cross-posting can frustrate anyone who tries to help you only to find out later that the same answer was given hours ago in a cross-posted thread. No one likes wasting their time, especially a volunteer. The polite thing to do would be to provide links in both cross-posts to each other.

Also, you've been given an excellent suggestion to use a HashMap. What do you find wrong with this?

[FraggleBoDiddly]

Sorry, I'm new to programming in general and was trying to get a number of different views, and I had already marked that one as "answered" a few hours ago, only to find out that I couldn't get it to work as I'd hoped.

I'm actually not quite sure how to use a hashmap. I'm learning outside of any teaching, and I'm mostly using my one book and online tutorials (as well as forums if I need to). I've looked up hashmaps on google but there examples are miles ahead of where I should be (I'll write this in the other forum too). If hashmaps are the only way to go about this, I'll just leave it as a group of if statements until I can get my head around hashmaps.

Thanks.

[Fubarable]

Are you coding this application in Swing?

[Eranga]

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Can you tell me what this is? Please don't post annoying things in the forum. Ask your question much clearly in the right forum. Members of our community will help you to solve it in there best.