Trouble with recursion if statement.

[david522]

Basically I'm using a Jpanel set up. The aim is that there are 7 levels of recursion. Everytime I press a button to increase or decrease the recursion the pattern should change to the corresponding level of recursion. So for example level 1 is one square, level 2 is 4 squares around that square and level 3 is 4 squares around those 4 squares...

Basically I won't go into detail but the "level" is passed into the class as an int. The starting level of recursion is 1.

How would I create an if statement to let the method know only to call itself again when the method has been changed up or down?

private void drawPattern(Graphics g, int level, double leftX, double topY, double size) {
if (level ?){
drawPattern(g, level , leftX, topY,size/2);

Note I am only interested in the if statement as of now.

[Iron Lion]

I'm guessing you already have an instance variable called level. In that case, couldn't you do something like:

if (level != this.level) { ... }

[david522]

Nope, the code just never executes.

[Norm]

Try debugging the code by adding printlns to show the values of the variables as the code is executed.

Where does your code change the value of the level variable?