Thread: Need some help/advice for my GUI code.

Hi. I'm currently learning Java and I need to do a project that makes shapes and my name appear with the buttons on the GUI. I also need to make them all clear on the final button press. I think I almost have it, but I'm still not quite sure on how to link each shape to the coresponding JButton. I'm a little stumped.

import java.sql.*;
import java.awt.geom.*;
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
 
//Layout
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
 
//Forming the objects
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import java.awt.Font;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
 
import java.awt.geom.*;
 
//Menu Objects
import javax.swing.JMenu;
import javax.swing.JMenuBar;
import javax.swing.JMenuItem;
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
 
//Event handling
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.border.EtchedBorder;
import javax.swing.border.TitledBorder;
 
 
//Input and Output Objects
import java.net.*;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import java.util.Scanner;
 
 
public class RashadMooreFinalProject extends JFrame
{
 
    private ActionListener  listener;
	 private JTextField      inputText;
    private JTextArea       outputText;
    private JButton         addCircle;
	 private JButton         addSquare;
	 private JButton         addTriangle;
	 private JButton         addme;
	 private JButton         addclearall;
 
	 Graphics2D g2;
 
 
 
 
    private static final int FRAME_WIDTH = 600;
    private static final int FRAME_HEIGHT = 400;
 
	 private static final String myName = "Rashad Moore";
	 static final String defaultURL = "http://www.rashadlavonmoore.com/";
 
 
	  public RashadMooreFinalProject()
	  {
 
	   //Input box that will be changed.
 
 
 
 
 
 
		  JMenuBar menu = new JMenuBar();
        setJMenuBar(menu);
        menu.add(createFileMenu());
 
		    class ChoiceListener implements ActionListener
        {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
            {
 
            }
        }
 
 
 
  class TextListener implements ActionListener
        {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
            {
                setNewText();
            }
        }
 
 
        listener = new TextListener();
 
        createControlPanel();
 
        setSize(FRAME_WIDTH, FRAME_HEIGHT);
    }
	  public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        JFrame frame = new RashadMooreFinalProject();
		  frame.setTitle("Rashad Moore Final");
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }
 
 
 
    public JMenu createFileMenu()
    {
        JMenu tMenu = new JMenu("File");
        tMenu.add(createExitItem());
        return tMenu;
    }
 
 
    public JMenuItem createExitItem()
    {
        JMenuItem mItem = new JMenuItem("Close");
 
        //Create a special listener condition for this entry.
        class MenuItemListener implements ActionListener
        {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
            {
                System.exit(0);
            }
        }
 
        ActionListener listener = new MenuItemListener();
        mItem.addActionListener(listener);
 
        return mItem;
    }
 
 
    /**
     * Creating the HELP and ABOUT functionality.
     */
    public JMenuItem createAboutItem()
    {
        JMenuItem mItem = new JMenuItem("About...");
 
        //Make a listener
        class MenuItemListener implements ActionListener
        {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event)
            {
 
            }
        }
 
        ActionListener listener = new MenuItemListener();
        mItem.addActionListener(listener);
 
        return mItem;
    }
 /**
     * Create the control panel of interactive objects.
	  */
 
    //Creating the buttons
	 public JPanel createButton()
    {
        addCircle = new JButton("Draw Circle");
        addCircle.addActionListener(listener);
 
		  JPanel panel = new JPanel();
        panel.add(addCircle);
 
		  addSquare = new JButton("Draw Square");
        addSquare.addActionListener(listener);
 
        panel.add(addSquare);
 
		  addTriangle = new JButton("Draw Triangle");
        addTriangle.addActionListener(listener);
		   panel.add(addTriangle);
 
		  addme = new JButton("Me");
        addme.addActionListener(listener);
		   panel.add(addme);
 
		  addclearall = new JButton("Clear All");
        addclearall.addActionListener(listener);
		   panel.add(addclearall);
 
        return panel;
    }
 
	     public void createControlPanel()
    {
 
 
        JPanel textButtonPanel  = createButton();
 
        JPanel controlPanel = new JPanel();
        controlPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(3,1));
        controlPanel.add(textButtonPanel);
 
        add(controlPanel, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
    }
	 		public void paint(Graphics g)
	{
		super.paint( g );
      //Drawing the Circle
		{
		g.drawOval(340, 75, 90, 90);
 
  }
 
		//Drawing the Square
		g.drawRect(200, 100, 100, 100);
 
 
 
		//Drawing the triangle
 
    g.drawLine(100, 100, 150, 100);
    g.drawLine(150, 100, 125, 150);
    g.drawLine(125, 150, 100, 100);
 
	 //Writing my name
 
 
    Font myFont = new Font("Times New Roman", Font.BOLD | Font.ITALIC ,30);
    g.setFont(myFont);
	 g.drawString("Rashad Lavon Moore", 55, 90);
	}
 
	  //Creating the button
 
	    public void setNewText()
    {
        inputText.setText("Me");
        inputText.repaint();
 
 
    }
 
 
 
 
 
    /**
     * Handler function when refresh button is clicked. Grabs HTML data from URL.
     */
    public void setURLtext() throws IOException
    {
        //Set up the URL information
        URL url = new URL(inputText.getText());
        URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
 
        //Check that HTTP connection is good
        HttpURLConnection http = (HttpURLConnection)connection;
        int response = http.getResponseCode();
 
        if (response != HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK)
        {
            return;
        }
 
        //Input stream
        InputStream is = connection.getInputStream();
        Scanner input = new Scanner(is);
        outputText.setText("");
 
        while (input.hasNextLine())
        {
            String inLine = input.nextLine();
            outputText.append(inLine);
            outputText.append("\n");
        }
 
 
    }
 
    {
        JPanel textButtonPanel  = createButton();
 
        JPanel controlPanel = new JPanel();
        controlPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(3,1));
 
        controlPanel.add(textButtonPanel);
        add(controlPanel, BorderLayout.SOUTH);
    }
 
 
 
 
 
 
}

how to link each shape to the coresponding JButton

Can you explain what you mean by the above?

By "link" do you mean when you press the button, some code is executed?
Use listeners for connecting button presses to methods.

To put it simply, I click a button on the GUI and the corresponding shape appears. I'm using three shapes and my name in my code using Paint and Text.

Several steps required:
1) recognize the button click and call a method
2) in the method called, do something that will cause the shape to appear. Call repaint()
3) in the overridden paint() method draw the shape(s) and text determined by step 2