Adding Interest to a Bank Account

[petur170]

Hi, im am very new to Java (started 3 days ago) and i am also quite young (10) and i am trying to make a button that you press and it adds interest to 3 accounts. I got some of the code here from a youtube video and added a lot but there is an error that you'll see near the end of the code. The error says "NAME_account cannot be resolved". I'll add some of the other .classes if you need them. I'm using Eclipse for editing. Please help me! Here is the Button Code:
InterestButton.java

import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.Icon;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

public class InterestButton extends JFrame {
	
	private JButton custom;
	
	public InterestButton() {
		super("Interest Adder");
		setLayout(new FlowLayout());
		
		Icon IB = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("IButton.png"));
		Icon IJB = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("IButtonB.png"));
		
		custom = new JButton("Add Interest",IB);
		custom.setRolloverIcon(IJB);
		add(custom);
		
		InterestAddButton handler = new InterestAddButton();
		custom.addActionListener(handler);
		
	}
	
	private class InterestAddButton extends AccountDemo implements ActionListener{
		public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event){
			myAccount.addMonthlyInterest();
			petersAccount.addMonthlyInterest();
			mansAccount.addMonthlyInterest();
			removeAll();
			System.out.println ("Man1's Balance: $" +
					Math.round(petersAccount.getbalance()));
				System.out.println ("Man2's Balance: $" +
					Math.round(myAccount.getbalance()));
				System.out.println ("Man3's Balance: $" +
					Math.round(mansAccount.getbalance()));
			repaint();
			validate();
				
				
			JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, String.format("%s","Interest Added"));	

	
			}
	}
}

AccountDemo.java

import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.Icon;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

import javax.swing.JFrame;

class AccountDemo
{
	static InterestBearingAccount myAccount = new InterestBearingAccount();
	static InterestBearingAccount petersAccount = new InterestBearingAccount();
	static InterestBearingAccount mansAccount = new InterestBearingAccount();



		public static void main(String args[])
		{
 

	


			
			InterestButton win = new InterestButton();
			win.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
			win.setSize(400,128);
			win.setVisible(true);
				

			
		
		petersAccount.deposit(2500000.00);
		myAccount.deposit(54256.00);
		mansAccount.deposit(14.00);
    
		myAccount.withdraw(80.00);
		petersAccount.withdraw(15346);
		mansAccount.withdraw(451);
              
		System.out.println ("Calculating Accounts...");
		try
		{
		Thread.sleep(3000);
		}
		catch(InterruptedException e)
		{
		e.printStackTrace();
		}
                
		myAccount.addMonthlyInterest();
		petersAccount.addMonthlyInterest();
		petersAccount.addMonthlyInterest();
		System.out.println ("Adding interest to account(s)...");
		try
		{
		Thread.sleep(1000);
		}
		catch(InterruptedException e)
		{
		e.printStackTrace();
		}
               
		System.out.println ("Man1's Balance: $" +
			Math.round(petersAccount.getbalance()));
		System.out.println ("Man2's Balance: $" +
				Math.round(myAccount.getbalance()));
		System.out.println ("Man3's Balance: $" +
				Math.round(mansAccount.getbalance()));

	

			
		}
}

Thanks!

[milovan]

10 years? Amazing, so where is your "NAME_account" I don't see it in your code?

[petur170]

well, there are three of them,
my_account,
peters_account,
and mans_account, so i just put NAME_account to represent all three of them

[milovan]

Have you declared and instantiated those variables. From error description it looks like compiler don't know what those *_accounts are.
And try to make your code more java: myAccount, petersAccount, mansAccount, addMonthlyInterest()...

[petur170]

Yes i made them in AccountDemo.java
AccountDemo.java:

class AccountDemo
{



		public static void main(String args[])
	{
                // Create an empty account
		InterestBearingAccount myAccount = new InterestBearingAccount();
		InterestBearingAccount petersAccount = new InterestBearingAccount();
		InterestBearingAccount mansAccount = new InterestBearingAccount();
                // Deposit money
		petersAccount.deposit(2500000.00);
		myAccount.deposit(54256.00);
		mansAccount.deposit(835145.00);
                // Print current balance


                // Withdraw money
		myAccount.withdraw(80.00);
		petersAccount.withdraw(15346);
		mansAccount.withdraw(451);
                // Print remaining balance
		System.out.println ("Calculating Accounts...");
		try
		{
		Thread.sleep(3000);
		}
		catch(InterruptedException e)
		{
		e.printStackTrace();
		}
                // Allow a month to pass
		myAccount.addMonthlyInterest();
		petersAccount.addMonthlyInterest();
		petersAccount.addMonthlyInterest();
		System.out.println ("Adding interest to account(s)...");
		try
		{
		Thread.sleep(1000);
		}
		catch(InterruptedException e)
		{
		e.printStackTrace();
		}
                // Print remaining balance
		System.out.println ("Man1's Balance: $" +
			Math.round(petersAccount.getbalance()));
		System.out.println ("Man2's Balance: $" +
				Math.round(myAccount.getbalance()));
		System.out.println ("Man3's Balance: $" +
				Math.round(mansAccount.getbalance()));
		
	
					
		
	
			}


	

}

[littledrummerboy]

Since you declared the accounts as local variables in the AccountDemo class, their values can only be accessed in the Account Demo class. That's why you're getting an error because the compiler cannot find the variables you're trying to access. In order to access them in the InterestButton class you must make them class variables in the AccountDemo Class. So your code should look more like this (with better indentation, not sure how to do it in this post)...

class AccountDemo
{
//Create Empty Accounts
InterestBearingAccount myAccount = new InterestBearingAccount();
InterestBearingAccount petersAccount = new InterestBearingAccount();
InterestBearingAccount mansAccount = new InterestBearingAccount();


		public static void main(String args[])
	{   
                // Deposit money
		petersAccount.deposit(2500000.00);
		myAccount.deposit(54256.00);
		mansAccount.deposit(835145.00);
                // Print current balance

                 .........etc.

Then in your InterestButton class you should access the accounts by proceeding them with the class name they are contained in, so the interestaddbutton method would something like this (again forgive any indentation problems):

private class InterestAddButton extends AccountDemo implements ActionListener{
		public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event){
			AccountDemo.my_account.add_monthly_interest(); //THIS HAS A ERROR
			AccountDemo.peters_account.add_monthly_interest(); //THIS HAS A ERROR
			AccountDemo.mans_account.add_monthly_interest(); //THIS HAS A ERROR
		}
	}

and like milovan said, i'm pretty sure that in java underscores aren't used as commonly for method names or for variables unless they are constants..

Hope this helps!

[petur170]

Well it fixes the error in the button code, but in accountdemo there are now errors every time petersAccount, mansAccount, and myAccount is mentioned inside the brackets of "public static void"

[Norm]

there are now errors

Please copy and paste the full text of the error messages here.

[littledrummerboy]

Sorry, I forgot to mention that you need to make the accounts "static" when you declare them in AccountDemo.

Thus,

class AccountDemo
{
//Create Empty Accounts
static InterestBearingAccount myAccount = new InterestBearingAccount();
static InterestBearingAccount petersAccount = new InterestBearingAccount();
static InterestBearingAccount mansAccount = new InterestBearingAccount();
.....etc.

Is it a problem if those variables are static for your program?

[petur170]

No i don't think it matters if its static. Thanks, but if i press the "Add Interest" Button, it says" interest added" but then nothing happens.

[Norm]

but then nothing happens.

Sounds like you need to do some debugging. Does your IDE have interactive debugging?
Otherwise add println statements to show where the execution flow goes and how variable values change.

[petur170]

Oh, I see what I did wrong, when I add interest to the accounts, it doesn't change the text on the screen because I didn't reprint it. The problem is, when I print it again it just appears right before the old one. Is there a way I can remove text that was printed before? Thanks.

[littledrummerboy]

where do you want it to change the text? what are you using to display it?
i think i needa see some more code

generally though, if its a component you could probably use the removeAll() method and then change the text and repaint() and validate() to update it.

[petur170]

Ok, heres all my code (thats necessary). I'll update the post too.
AccountDemo.java

import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.Icon;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

import javax.swing.JFrame;

class AccountDemo
{
	static InterestBearingAccount myAccount = new InterestBearingAccount();
	static InterestBearingAccount petersAccount = new InterestBearingAccount();
	static InterestBearingAccount mansAccount = new InterestBearingAccount();



		public static void main(String args[])
		{
 

	


			
			InterestButton win = new InterestButton();
			win.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
			win.setSize(400,128);
			win.setVisible(true);
				

			
		
		petersAccount.deposit(2500000.00);
		myAccount.deposit(54256.00);
		mansAccount.deposit(14.00);
    
		myAccount.withdraw(80.00);
		petersAccount.withdraw(15346);
		mansAccount.withdraw(451);
              
		System.out.println ("Calculating Accounts...");
		try
		{
		Thread.sleep(3000);
		}
		catch(InterruptedException e)
		{
		e.printStackTrace();
		}
                
		myAccount.addMonthlyInterest();
		petersAccount.addMonthlyInterest();
		petersAccount.addMonthlyInterest();
		System.out.println ("Adding interest to account(s)...");
		try
		{
		Thread.sleep(1000);
		}
		catch(InterruptedException e)
		{
		e.printStackTrace();
		}
               
		System.out.println ("Man1's Balance: $" +
			Math.round(petersAccount.getbalance()));
		System.out.println ("Man2's Balance: $" +
				Math.round(myAccount.getbalance()));
		System.out.println ("Man3's Balance: $" +
				Math.round(mansAccount.getbalance()));

	

			
		}
}

InterestButton.java

import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.Icon;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

public class InterestButton extends JFrame {
	
	private JButton custom;
	
	public InterestButton() {
		super("Interest Adder");
		setLayout(new FlowLayout());
		
		Icon IB = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("IButton.png"));
		Icon IJB = new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("IButtonB.png"));
		
		custom = new JButton("Add Interest",IB);
		custom.setRolloverIcon(IJB);
		add(custom);
		
		InterestAddButton handler = new InterestAddButton();
		custom.addActionListener(handler);
		
	}
	
	private class InterestAddButton extends AccountDemo implements ActionListener{
		public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event){
			myAccount.addMonthlyInterest();
			petersAccount.addMonthlyInterest();
			mansAccount.addMonthlyInterest();
			removeAll();
			System.out.println ("Man1's Balance: $" +
					Math.round(petersAccount.getbalance()));
				System.out.println ("Man2's Balance: $" +
					Math.round(myAccount.getbalance()));
				System.out.println ("Man3's Balance: $" +
					Math.round(mansAccount.getbalance()));
			repaint();
			validate();
				
				
			JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, String.format("%s","Interest Added"));	

	
			}
	}
}

[littledrummerboy]

Are you talking about trying to change text displayed in the console (the bottom box when running it in eclipse) or in a separate window component?

[petur170]

text displayed in the console. But later im gonna put it in a applet

[Norm]

print outs for applets go in the browser's Java console.

[littledrummerboy]

to my knowledge you can't change text that's been printed to the console using System.out.print..
but i could be wrong, maybe norm can offer some insight here?
if you were to display the information that you would like to change inside of a component then you could use the method that i said earlier (removeAll())

[Norm]

You would only use the console for debug output. You need to create a GUI for output to be shown to the user.

[littledrummerboy]

yeah, i would suggest maybe creating a JFrame and then adding JPanels or JLabels to that in order to display your information