Urgent! Drawing graphic in Java

[fungling]

Hi all,

I am doing a Catering project which requires to view the table status (4 colors represent 4 status) in graphical form. User can click the graphic and see the billing or order detail. I don't have any idea on it.
Should I use 2D Graphic and Threading in this project.
Please give me some suggestion or reference to do so.

Many Thanks!

Joyce

 

[JavelinMan]

Are the 4 statuses mutually exclusive? only one at a time?

 

[idarke]

A JButton can display a graphic (jpg or gif). One of the constructors will take an ImageIcon object.

 

[fungling]

JavalinMan,

4 statuses are mutually exclusive and only one status per each table is allowed at a time. The system should show 25 tables status at the same time.

Many thanks

Joyce

 

[jfryer]

I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve here but one question that springs to mind is, must it be in graphical form? If the user has to click a colour to see a status, it strikes me that those colours are just buttons in disguse.

Could you not extend the JButton so that instead of drawing a standard button it draws as a solid colour, so that when a user clicks on the colour, he is in fact clicking on a button?

over writting the

protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {...}

method will allow you to draw the button anyway you wish, just remember to add the line

super.paintComponent(g);

to the end of your overwritten method.

Check out some of Sun's tutorials on custom swing components, specifically how to create a round button, for an idea on getting that to work. -------------------------------------------
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[dellyjm]

Javelin man, i'm doing something that would have JToggleButtons that are mutually exclusive but can u create like an array of JButtons. That way if I want to do some mass changes I could just access them through their index?

Delton.