Random box game : unsuccessful Buttons & Graphics listneres and JPanel Placement.

[AcousticBruce]

I am working on a small project for fun. It basically randomly creates a grid and and starts you as a box in the top left corner. You can move with the arrow keys and and hit the "r" key to randomly generate a new grid.

Basically I got it working wothout the add of another JPanel. When I add a new panel with buttons I loose control of the graphics KeyListeners.

1) is there a way to have listeners for both graphics and buttons? How?

2) Is there a way to move the 2nd JPanel down toward bottom like say 90% of screen? So basically a GridLayout(2,1) where the first row is 90%.

please feel free to critique my code if you think it is inefficient, thank you :)





This is the GUI where the issue is I believe

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.KeyListener;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;

public class GUI extends JFrame implements KeyListener, ActionListener {

    private DrawBoard board = new DrawBoard();
    private JPanel options = new JPanel();
    private JButton moveBlockB; JTextField moveBlockT;
    private boolean movable = true;

    GUI() {
        super("Packy AI");
        setSize(561, 583);
        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

        moveBlockB = new JButton("Movable Blocks?");
        moveBlockT = new JTextField(Boolean.toString(movable), 10);
        moveBlockT.setEditable(false);
        options.add(moveBlockB);
        options.add(moveBlockT);
        add(board);
        [COLOR="Red"]//add(options);                          //All this is causes major problems. 
        //setLayout(new GridLayout(2,1));
        //moveBlockB.addActionListener(this);[/COLOR]
        this.addKeyListener(this);
        setVisible(true);
    }

    public void keyPressed(KeyEvent event) {
        if(event.getKeyCode() == 37) {
            board.moveLeft();
        }
        if(event.getKeyCode() == 38) {
            board.moveUp();
        }
        if(event.getKeyCode() == 39) {
            board.moveRight();
        }
        if(event.getKeyCode() == 40) {
            board.moveDown();
        }
        if(event.getKeyCode() == 82) {
        board.drawRandBox();
        }
    }
    public void keyReleased(KeyEvent event) {
    }
    public void keyTyped(KeyEvent event) {
    }

    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) {
      //  if (movable) movable = false;
      //  else movable = true;
      //  moveBlockT.setText(Boolean.toString(movable));
    //}
}

The rest of the code is on next post.

[AcousticBruce]

This is probably not needed. But just in case anyone was curious.









This is the DrawBoard class which contains the graphics and boundries.

import javax.swing.JPanel;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Color;
import java.util.Random;


public class DrawBoard extends JPanel {
    private int x = 2*55+10, y = 65;
    private final int SPEED = 55;
    private boolean[][] maze = new boolean[10][10];
    boolean draw = true;
    Random rand = new Random();

    public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
        super.paintComponent(g);
        this.setBackground(Color.BLACK);

        //drawing graphics
        if (draw) {
            drawMaze();
        }
        for(int row = 0; row < 10; row++) {
            for (int col = 0; col < 10; col++) {
                if (maze[row][col]) {
                    g.setColor(Color.WHITE);
                    g.fillRect((row*55),(col*55), 50, 50);
                }
            }
        }
        g.setColor(Color.RED);
        g.fillRect(this.x, this.y, 30, 30);
    }
    private void drawMaze() {
        for (int row = 0; row < 10; row++) {
            for (int col = 0; col < 10; col++) {
                boolean fill = rand.nextBoolean();
                if (fill && row * 55 + 10 == this.x && col * 55 + 10 == this.y) {
                    break;
                }
                maze[row][col] = fill;
            }
        }
        draw = false;
    }

    private boolean checkBounds() {
        if(x < 10 || y < 10 || x > 505 || y > 505 || maze[this.x/55][this.y/55])
            return false;
        return true;
    }

    public void drawRandBox() {
        drawMaze();
        repaint();
    }
    public void moveLeft() {

        this.x -= SPEED;
        if (!checkBounds()) {
            int xEq = this.x/55, yEq = this.y/55;
            if(xEq - 1 >= 0 && !maze[xEq-1][yEq]) {
                maze[xEq][yEq] = false;
                maze[xEq-1][yEq] = true;

            } else {
                this.x += SPEED;
            }
        }
        repaint();

    }
    public void moveUp() {
        this.y -= SPEED;
        if (!checkBounds()) {
            int xEq = this.x/55, yEq = this.y/55;
            if(yEq - 1 >= 0 && !maze[xEq][yEq-1]) {
                maze[xEq][yEq] = false;
                maze[xEq][yEq-1] = true;

            } else {
                this.y += SPEED;
            }
        }
        repaint();

    }
    public void moveRight() {
        this.x += SPEED;
        if (!checkBounds()) {
            int xEq = this.x/55, yEq = this.y/55;
            if(xEq + 1 < 10 && !maze[xEq+1][yEq]) {
                maze[xEq][yEq] = false;
                maze[xEq+1][yEq] = true;

            } else {
                this.x -= SPEED;
            }
        }
        repaint();

    }
    public void moveDown() {
        this.y += SPEED;
        if (!checkBounds()) {
            int xEq = this.x/55, yEq = this.y/55;
            if(yEq + 1 < 10 && !maze[xEq][yEq+1]) {
                maze[xEq][yEq] = false;
                maze[xEq][yEq+1] = true;

            } else {
                this.y -= SPEED;
            }
        }
        repaint();

    }
}

Main Class

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new GUI();
    }
}

[Fubarable]

Basically I got it working wothout the add of another JPanel. When I add a new panel with buttons I loose control of the graphics KeyListeners.

1) is there a way to have listeners for both graphics and buttons? How?

Don't use KeyListeners but instead use Key Binding. The Swing tutorial on this will help get you started.

2) Is there a way to move the 2nd JPanel down toward bottom like say 90% of screen? So basically a GridLayout(2,1) where the first row is 90%.

I'm not sure I understand your requirement here.

[AcousticBruce]

Don't use KeyListeners but instead use Key Binding. The Swing tutorial on this will help get you started.

What do you use KeyListenersfor?




[CODE]I'm not sure I understand your requirement here.[/QUOTE]

if you do GridLayout(2,1) there is 2 panels and they both take up 50% of the window.
Is there a way to change the size of each grid so one can take up 90% and the other 10%.