a quiz program

**tom2zip** · 12-15-2011, 02:20 AM

what i'm trying to create here is a quiz program
there are four radio buttons, each representing the possible answers to the question and if i click on a radio button, the next question will show up and so on
the problem is that i have no idea how to make that happen
any suggestions?

Java Code:

import java.awt.BorderLayout;


public class QuestionPage extends JFrame
{

	private JPanel contentPane;
	private JTextField txtQuestion;

	/**
	 * Launch the application.
	 */
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable()
		{
			public void run()
			{
				try
				{
					QuestionPage frame = new QuestionPage();
					frame.setVisible(true);
				} catch (Exception e)
				{
					e.printStackTrace();
				}
			}
		});
	}

	/**
	 * Create the frame.
	 */
	public QuestionPage()
	{
		setTitle("Quiz");
		setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
		setBounds(100, 100, 414, 241);
		contentPane = new JPanel();
		contentPane.setBorder(new EmptyBorder(5, 5, 5, 5));
		setContentPane(contentPane);
		contentPane.setLayout(null);
		
		ButtonGroup options = new ButtonGroup();
		
		
		JRadioButton rbOpt1 = new JRadioButton("Option 1");
		rbOpt1.addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() {
		rbOpt1.setBounds(10, 84, 109, 23);
		options.add(rbOpt1);
		contentPane.add(rbOpt1);
		
		JRadioButton rbOpt2 = new JRadioButton("Option 2");
		rbOpt2.setBounds(10, 110, 109, 23);
		options.add(rbOpt2);
		contentPane.add(rbOpt2);
		
		JRadioButton rbOpt3 = new JRadioButton("Option 3");
		rbOpt3.setBounds(10, 136, 109, 23);
		options.add(rbOpt3);
		contentPane.add(rbOpt3);
		
		JRadioButton rbOpt4 = new JRadioButton("Option 4");
		rbOpt4.setBounds(10, 162, 109, 23);
		options.add(rbOpt4);
		contentPane.add(rbOpt4);
		
		txtQuestion = new JTextField();
		txtQuestion.setFont(new Font("Tahoma", Font.PLAIN, 18));
		txtQuestion.setText("Question #1");
		txtQuestion.setBounds(10, 39, 332, 28);
		contentPane.add(txtQuestion);
		txtQuestion.setColumns(10);
	}
}

**Eranga** · 12-15-2011, 02:53 AM

Please use the code tags when you posting code segments next time. Unformatted codes are really hard to read.

**Eranga** · 12-15-2011, 02:57 AM

Regarding your question,

1. You must have a way to store already created question and answers. Because you cannot generate question through a code, human interaction is need.
2. To store questions you can use a database, text file, etc...
3. In my experience, you can use XML (and XSLT too for formatting). So you can define a patter to store details of each question and work around.
4. Use of databases can cause lot of performance issues.

**tom2zip** · 12-15-2011, 03:01 AM

can you explain what XML and XSLT are? sorry i'm new to Java

**Eranga** · 12-15-2011, 03:05 AM

If you don't know about XSLT just forget about that at the moment. Those are comes to picture when you have to dealing with formatting/styling. With or without XSLT we can do styling, but having it make your life easy.

However, the knowledge of XML is really valued for all the programmers I think. If you really don't know about that read the following Wiki first of all.

XML - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia