my problem is, where is says “triangle.addActionListener(new ShapeAction());” in my code there is a error that says ShapeAction symbol is not found, what am i doing wrong here? and could someone look at my If statement, its ment to do: once a menu item is clicked it creates a instance of that shape from another class
public class MyFrame extends javax.swing.JFrame {
public MyFrame() {
// Create the menu
JMenuBar topMenu = new JMenuBar();
this.setJMenuBar(topMenu);
//create the menu button "shapes"
JMenu shapes = new JMenu("Shapes");
topMenu.add(shapes);
//Create the 3 shapes for the menu
JMenuItem square = new JMenuItem("Square");
square.addActionListener(new ShapeAction());
JMenuItem circle = new JMenuItem("Circle");
circle.addActionListener(new ShapeAction());
JMenuItem triangle = new JMenuItem("Triangle");
triangle.addActionListener(new ShapeAction());
//add shapes to menu
shapes.add(circle);
shapes.add(triangle);
shapes.add(square);
//add the menu
setJMenuBar(topMenu);
MyControlPanel pane = new MyControlPanel();
getContentPane().add(pane);
this.add(pane);
}
/**
* @param args the command line arguments
*/
public static void main(String args[]) {
// <snip>
/* Create and display the form */
java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
new MyFrame().setVisible(true);
}
});
class ShapeAction implements ActionListener{
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
JMenuItem clickedMenu = (JMenuItem)e.getSource();
if (clickedMenu.getText().equals("Square")){
//implement abstract methods
MyShape aSquare = new ASquare();
}
else if (clickedMenu.getText().equals("Circle")){
//implement abstract methods
MyShape ACircle = new ACircle();
}
else if (clickedMenu.getText().equals("Triangle")){
//implement abstract methods
MyShape ATriangle = new ATriangle();
}
}
}
}
package assignment;
//import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.FlowLayout;
import javax.swing.GroupLayout;
import javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JSlider;
import javax.swing.JTextField;
import javax.swing.event.ChangeEvent;
import javax.swing.event.ChangeListener;
public class MyControlPanel extends javax.swing.JPanel {
JSlider slider;
JLabel sliderLabel;
JLabel sliderdimension;
JLabel blank;
JLabel dl;
JLabel area1;
/**
* Creates new form MyControlPanel
*/
public MyControlPanel() {
slider = new JSlider();
slider.setValue(50);
slider.addChangeListener(new MyChangeAction());
slider.setMajorTickSpacing(10);
slider.setPaintLabels(true);
slider.setPaintTicks(true);
slider.setBounds(300, 50, 100, 50);
sliderLabel = new JLabel("50");
blank = new JLabel(" ");
sliderdimension = new JLabel("Shape Dimension:");
JTextField boundary_length = new JTextField("Boundary Length");
JTextField area = new JTextField("Area");
dl = new JLabel("Boundary Length =");
area1 = new JLabel("Area =");
setLayout(new BorderLayout());
JPanel sliderPanel = new JPanel();
sliderPanel.setLayout(new FlowLayout(FlowLayout.CENTER, 10, 0));
sliderPanel.add(sliderdimension);
sliderPanel.add(sliderLabel);
sliderPanel.add(slider);
sliderPanel.add(dl);
sliderPanel.add(boundary_length);
sliderPanel.add(area1);
sliderPanel.add(area);
this.add(sliderPanel, BorderLayout.PAGE_END);
}
/**
* This method is called from within the constructor to initialize the form.
* WARNING: Do NOT modify this code. The content of this method is always
* regenerated by the Form Editor.
*/
// <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Generated Code">
private void initComponents() {
javax.swing.GroupLayout layout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(this);
this.setLayout(layout);
layout.setHorizontalGroup(
layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
.addGap(0, 400, Short.MAX_VALUE)
);
layout.setVerticalGroup(
layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
.addGap(0, 300, Short.MAX_VALUE)
);
}// </editor-fold>
// Variables declaration - do not modify
// End of variables declaration
public class MyChangeAction implements ChangeListener {
//complete code here
public void stateChanged(ChangeEvent ce) {
int value = slider.getValue();
String str = Integer.toString(value);
sliderLabel.setText(str);
}
} // end class
}
package assignment;
public abstract class MyShape
{
double thelength;
double thearea;
public abstract double computeBoundaryLength(double Length);
public abstract double computeArea (double Length);
}
package assignment;
public class ACircle extends MyShape {
@Override
public double computeBoundaryLength(double Length)
{
thelength=(2*Length*Math.PI);
return thelength;
}
@Override
public double computeArea(double Length)
{
thearea=(Length*Length*Math.PI);
return thearea;
}
}
You should introduce inner class
ShapeActionoutside themainmethod, inside theMyFrameclass. And you create a localmain‘s method class instead of that.Simply move it outside the
mainmethod:P.S. And you forgot one closing bracket in the end of your code. I have added it in the example through…