ASCII Triangle

Hi,
I need to create a triangle based on a height value given by the user.
The base of the triangle is calculated with:

Code:

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private int getTriangleWidth( int triangleHeight )
    {
        return 2 * triangleHeight - 1;
    }

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and the method I am trying to use the make the triangle is:

Code:

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private void printTriangle( int height, int margin, boolean pointUp )
    {
            int base = this.getTriangleWidth( height );
            int m;
            int n;
            int o;
           
            if( pointUp )
            {

                for( n = 0; n < height; n++ )
                    {
                            for( m = 1; m <= margin; m++ )
                        {
                                System.out.print( " " );
                        }

                    for( n = 0; n < height; n++ )
                    {                           
                            for( o = -1; o < n; o++ )
                        {
                                System.out.print( "*" );
                        }
                        System.out.println( " " );
       
                    }
            }
    }

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If the user inputs 5, this results with a triangle that looks like this (I haven't included my driver method that actually tests the output):
*
**
***
****
*****

but I need an equilateral triangle: if the user inputs 5, it should have a base of 9 and a height of 5 and it should not have a right angle as the one above.
I understand that in my code above I don't have it depending on the base value at all but I'm not sure how to include it in or how to get the whitespace to come before the * in an even way so that I get my desired result.

Any hints would be wonderful

Here's a clue, you can use the getTriangleWidth(int) method to return the number of stars needed for each level of the triangle.

You aren't even using that method yet...

Also, the number of spaces on the left is half the difference between the widths of the longest row and the current row:

(widthOfLongestRow - widthOfCurrentRow) / 2

-Gary-