help with project action listener

[sinful estuary]

i need help with action listners in my java project if someone could help me do it it would be great ,basically i have to make a gui that where a user selects the arrow that is dsiplayed on the screen i have made the gui but just the action listneers need to be done it has to be done in java ,.basically works like this The four buttons show arrows point up, down, left and right respectively.
• When the user presses the “Play” button, an arrow should be shown in the middle, as shown in Figure 2. The
user should click on the corresponding arrow.
• If the user does click on the correct arrow, then their score should be incremented by 1. If the user clicks on
the incorrect arrow, then their score should be reset to 0.
• Once the user has clicked on an arrow, correct or incorrect, a new middle arrow should be randomly chosen
– this is now the arrow the user clicks on.
• If the user clicks on the “Reset” button, the score should be reset to 0 and the central image should be reset
to a blank image

[jolly otter]

Hey, @sinful estuary!
Please remember to /close this post once your question has been answered!

[dusky berry]

u did something?

@sinful estuary

[sinful estuary]

can we go dms ?

[dusky berry]

its ok heere

[sinful estuary]

alright so the gui looks like this

[dusky berry]

just dont totally ask like whole project do something we can say problem

[sinful estuary]

oh

no no i just need help with the action listners

i am struggling to do em

[dusky berry]

oh

can u put code

[sinful estuary]

i made the gui but my action listner isnt working

gimme 2 mins ill show you it

[dusky berry]

maybe u frogot to add actiaon list

listener

[dusky berry]

remake the image of the arrows and dont keep background white use transparent color

[sinful estuary]

play.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {

        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "You pressed a button!");
            Random rd = new Random();
            int i = rd.nextInt(20);
              if(i%4 == 0)
                  
                  
                  arrow.setIcon(RightIcon);


                  else if(i%4 == 1)

                  arrow.setIcon(LeftIcon);

                  else if(i%4 == 2) 

                  arrow.setIcon(UpIcon);

                  else

                  arrow.setIcon(DownIcon);
        }
    });

[jolly otter]

play.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated method stub
                JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "You pressed a button!");
                Random rd = new Random();
                int i = rd.nextInt(20);
                  if(i%4 == 0)
                      
                      
                      arrow.setIcon(RightIcon);


                      else if(i%4 == 1)

                      arrow.setIcon(LeftIcon);

                      else if(i%4 == 2) 

                      arrow.setIcon(UpIcon);

                      else

                      arrow.setIcon(DownIcon);
            }
        });

[sinful estuary]

this is the action listner for the play button when i press the play button i want the centre white box to display a random arrow

[dusky berry]

can u share full code

[sinful estuary]

can i send it in dms i dont want people copying my code xD

[dusky berry]

i think so u forgot to add listener to the button

no one will

[sinful estuary]

ok ok

[dusky berry]

its ook just put here idk why someone would

[sinful estuary]

gime a sec

[dusky berry]

u have waisted alot of code lol

u use ide?

[sinful estuary]

yeah i use ecliplse

import java.awt.GridBagLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;

import javax.swing.;
import java.awt.;
import javax.*;

import javax.swing.JFrame;

import java.util.*;

public class Main {

public static void main(String[] args) {
    // TODO Auto-generated method stub
    Random rd = new Random();
    JFrame frame = new JFrame();
    
    
      Icon UpIcon = new ImageIcon("Up.png");
      Icon LeftIcon = new ImageIcon("Left.png");
      Icon DownIcon = new ImageIcon("Down.png");
      Icon RightIcon = new ImageIcon("Right.png");
      Icon blank = new ImageIcon("Blank.png");
    
    
    JButton down = new JButton(new ImageIcon("Down.png")); 
    JButton left = new JButton(new ImageIcon("Left.png")); 
    JButton right = new JButton(new ImageIcon("Right.png")); 
    JButton up = new JButton(new ImageIcon("Up.png")); 
    JButton play = new JButton("Play");
    JButton reset = new JButton("Reset");
    

    //labels 
     JLabel score = new JLabel("Score:0");

      JLabel arrow = new JLabel(blank);
    

    //panels
    JPanel p1 = new JPanel();
    p1.setBounds(0, 0, 500, 70);
    JPanel p2 = new JPanel();
    p2.setBounds(0, 70, 500, 70);
    JPanel p3 = new JPanel();
    p3.setBounds(0, 140, 500, 70);
    
    //play reset
    JPanel p4 = new JPanel();
    p4.setBounds(0, 210, 500, 50);

[dusky berry]

put as file

just paste full text it will take as file

[sinful estuary]

where do i get the file from ?

[dusky berry]

just paste here text then option will come then remove the message

[dusky berry]

currently how many lines of code?

[dusky berry]

paste full xd

[sinful estuary]

oh alr

[dusky berry]

u have piskel or any other simple photo editing?

just fill the boundary with transparent color

[sinful estuary]

i dont the photos i used there where what was given to us

[dusky berry]

do ctrl shift f

[dusky berry]

lol the photos look bad

[sinful estuary]

the ones of the arrows ?

[dusky berry]

yes

but ok

if u want u can do it will look good

[sinful estuary]

i dont wnan loose marks he doesnt care about it really

he mainly wants functionanlity

but this action listner wonr work

[dusky berry]

do this in eclipse

[dusky berry]

is it throwing any exception or soemhtig?

[sinful estuary]

it says that when i press play

[dusky berry]

u should always put exception lol

its compilation error

[sinful estuary]

wdum

[dusky berry]

e

ahhh discord bug

[sinful estuary]

java is so confusing to me im a noob

[dusky berry]

but idc

[sinful estuary]

so how do i fix it ?

[dusky berry]

whenever exception come try to understand first line
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.Error: Unresolved compilation problems:

[sinful estuary]

yeah

so what i do to fix ;-;

this compilation error

[dusky berry]

its not compilation sorry

compilation is meannig like syntax error and stuff

syntax error means like when u didnt closed bracket and more

[sinful estuary]

ohh

[dusky berry]

can u try frame.repaint

in last line of action listener'

[sinful estuary]

ok

[sinful estuary]

doesnt work

[dusky berry]

frame.repaint(); 😦

[sinful estuary]

god im dum

still no work tho

[dusky berry]

can u give the images

[sinful estuary]

oki

sent the down arrow twuce

[dusky berry]

why the red lines coming?

[sinful estuary]

no clue but its all working tho

[dusky berry]

can u put ss eclipse

[sinful estuary]

put a screenshot in ecliplse ?

[dusky berry]

here

of eclipse

[sinful estuary]

ok

[dusky berry]

bruh

ahh

idk what

[sinful estuary]

;c

[dusky berry]

import javax.*;

remove thhis

why u add this?

[sinful estuary]

to import all imports one time

i removed it now

still same

[dusky berry]

how it is possible its working for me

u are tapping play button right

[sinful estuary]

wait

its showing

a image

when u tap play button ?

[dusky berry]

yes

[sinful estuary]

wtf

[dusky berry]

when u tap play it shows a random pic right?

[sinful estuary]

no

it gives an errow whn i tap play

[dusky berry]

how

JLabel arrow = new JLabel(blank);
-> final JLabel arrow = new JLabel(blank);

try

[sinful estuary]

no work

[dusky berry]

comment this
// JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "You pressed a button!");

[dusky berry]

do one thing

@sinful estuary

go widnows then preferences

[sinful estuary]

sorry was testing nebeans

im here

in prefrences

[dusky berry]

undo the comment and the final adding

[sinful estuary]

ok

[dusky berry]

its an eclipse problem

[sinful estuary]

done

so now what do i do

[sinful estuary]

in netbeans where would i add the images

im trying netbeans but it aint wroking

it aint showing the images nothing

[dusky berry]

go to file explorer then

[dusky berry]

just put all picture in addingment

assigmnent

no need file explorter

[sinful estuary]

wanan get married :>

LOL

ty man

eclipse is just shit ig

[dusky berry]

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25222811/access-restriction-the-type-application-is-not-api-restriction-on-required-l

[sinful estuary]

do you know how i can make my netbeasn look like eclipse wiht the colors and stuff

[dusky berry]

go to preferences somehting

[sinful estuary]

ok

[sinful estuary]

hey u still awake ?

[dusky berry]

i never used netbeen u can always search in google u get easy ways