Button Game horror

[MartinBenes71]

okay so I need a lot of help. I need to make 1000 buttons move and one of those buttons has to run away from the mouse. I already have the code for calling the 1000 buttons, but i dont know what to do next, how to make the buttons move and what not.

heres my code:

import javax.swing.*;
import java.util.*;
class ButtonGame extends JFrame implements java.awt.event.ActionListener {

private JButton[] buttons;
private JPanel p;
private Random random;

public static void main(String[] args){
ButtonGame app = new ButtonGame();
}
ButtonGame(){
System.out.println("Hi");
this.setVisible(true);
this.setBounds(10,10,500,500);

p = new JPanel(null);
this.add(p);

random = new Random();
buttons = new JButton[100];
for(int i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++){
buttons[i] = new JButton("Click Me");
buttons[i].addActionListener(this);
buttons[i].setBounds(random.nextInt(1500) + 10,
random.nextInt(700) + 10,
random.nextInt(150) + 10,
random.nextInt(250) + 10);
p.add(buttons[i]);
}
}
public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent e){
System.out.println("Ouch");
((JButton)e.getSource()).setVisible(false);
}
}

[quad64bit]

well, you'll have to use some kind of absolute layout manager for the placement of your button, and may have to override the painting methods in your JPanel depending on what it is you're trying to do. Perhaps you could place the buttons using nested loops, or store their position in a 2d array. 'Running' away from the mouse will be tough because I'm not sure java will let components like buttons overlap - I've never tried. I assume the 1000 buttons are supposed to be in a 100x100 grid?

[MartinBenes71]

well what i mean by the button moves ahead of the mouse cursor or follows it. the grid is 500x500,I can bring it down though. hmm I shall try the nested loops/2d array. I kinda figured out the button being ahead/behind the cursor. thanks for the help

[quad64bit]

Looks like both are maths are wrong. You said 1000 buttons? 500x500 is 250000 buttons. I said 100x100 but I meant something more like 32x32 = 1024.