Lottery Application

[leoshiner]

I am trying to write a lottery program which will read in six numbers and then check these numbers from a randomly generated draw but I cannot
get the numbers to output to my GUI correctly when I press a button to invoke the method I am getting the button I pressed but the other five output panels are coming up as zeros this is the method I have written

public void pickButton(int a){
 
 
 int selection[]= new int[6];   
  int counter=0;  
for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
selection[counter]=a;
for (int j = 0; j < i; ++j) {


selection[counter] = a;


}




}


choice1TextField.setText("" + selection[0]);
choice2TextField.setText("" + selection[1]);
choice3TextField.setText("" + selection[2]);
choice4TextField.setText("" + selection[3]);
choice5TextField.setText("" + selection[4]);
choice6TextField.setText("" + selection[5]);


counter++;


}

if anyone could point me in the direction where I am going wrong I would greatly appreciate it,if you need to see the full program let me know

[Tolls]

Please use [code] tags [/code] when posting code.

int selection[]= new int[6];   
int counter=0;  
for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
   selection[counter]=a;
   for (int j = 0; j < i; ++j) {
      selection[counter] = a;
   }
}

What is this supposed to do?
Because at the moment (since 'counter' never changes from 0) you are simply setting 'selection[0] = a' 30 odd times (give or take).

[Eranga]

You better take one step at a time. Seems your code segment not clear enough to others, including me. First you want to read six numbers, but how? We cannot see a clear way of doing that. Next generate random numbers and finally validate. Later on you can think about the UI stuff. So explain what you have tried in that code and we can comment on it.

BTW, if you want to know more about how to use code tags, please have a look at my forum signature. You can find a link there.