Quick Java Question

[AgaBoogaBoo]

I'm writing an applet that involves 8 different shipping zones. The user will select the zone through a Checkbox. I think an array could be useful, but I'd like to construct each Checkbox at the same time. How should I go about doing that?

Checkbox[] shipZone = new Checkbox

that's what I'm thinking of doing, but I don't know what goes after the end so that I can construct each checkbox with their title.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/awt/Checkbox.html For now, I want to use the second constructor they have listed that accepts a String

 

[notfred]

How are you going to construct 8 checkboxes at once with 8 seperate strings? You're going to have to do something 8 times. Or you could create an array of strings, and an array of checkboxes, and do something like:

String [8] strings;

// Set up all 8 strings here

Checkbox [8] shipZone;
for(int ii = 0; ii < 8; ii++){
shipZone[ii] = new Checkbox(strings[ii]);
}

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

import java.awt.*;
import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

public class shipPackage extends Applet
{

Label labTitle = new Label("Package Shipping");
Checkbox[] shipZone = new Checkbox({"",""});
public void init()
{
setBackground(Color.lightGray);
add(labTitle);
}//init
}//class

I haven't started actionlistener yet because I'm not that far, but it shouldn't affect this yet

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

Originally posted by: notfred
How are you going to construct 8 checkboxes at once with 8 seperate strings? You're going to have to do something 8 times. Or you could create an array of strings, and an array of checkboxes, and do something like:

String [8] strings;

// Set up all 8 strings here

Checkbox [8] shipZone;
for(int ii = 0; ii < 8; ii++){
shipZone[ii] = new Checkbox(strings[ii]);
}

thanks, that works, i was just checking if there was a shorter way

 

[notfred]

Just for the hell of it, and cause I'm tired of debugging, here's the app I'm working on.