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edgy marlin Jun 28, 2023, 5:51 PM

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Hello, I'm looking for some guidance regarding how I could go about creating a tournament bracket programmatically with Java and Swing.

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edgy marlin Jun 28, 2023, 5:52 PM

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Attached is an example image

modest slate Jun 28, 2023, 5:53 PM

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What you want is an image, or what?

edgy marlin Jun 28, 2023, 5:55 PM

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modest slate What you want is an image, or what?

No, I want to create the brackets using Swing UI elements. I want to be able to click on each tournament and have it take me to a new window

modest slate Jun 28, 2023, 5:56 PM

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What sort of guidance are you after, then?

edgy marlin Jun 28, 2023, 5:56 PM

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I'm not even sure how to get started

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To be honest

modest slate Jun 28, 2023, 5:56 PM

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By learning how to make GUIs, buttons, text fields...

edgy marlin Jun 28, 2023, 5:56 PM

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I don't know how I could put such a layout together

modest slate Jun 28, 2023, 5:57 PM

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"such a layout", what kind of layout?

edgy marlin Jun 28, 2023, 5:57 PM

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Creating buttons and text fields is trivial, but aligning everything and setting up the layout is the part where I'm lost

edgy marlin Jun 28, 2023, 5:58 PM

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modest slate "such a layout", what kind of layout?

The bracket layout

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Getting everything properly positioned so it looks similar to this

modest slate Jun 28, 2023, 5:58 PM

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You said you want to be able to click on a tournament. What is it exactly that you call a tournament?

edgy marlin Jun 28, 2023, 5:59 PM

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Each of those darker gray rectangles

modest slate Jun 28, 2023, 5:59 PM

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Is that normal terminology?
Anyway, yeah, that's a rather hard place to be

edgy marlin Jun 28, 2023, 5:59 PM

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Sorry, each of the darker gray rectangles would be a match. The tournament would be the whole thing. English isn't my first language and I got mixed up

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I want to be able to click on each of the dark rectangles and be taken to a page that would show me more information about that match

modest slate Jun 28, 2023, 6:00 PM

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Two approaches: manually placing the widgets rather than trying to use actual layouts, with all the limitations that come with that.
OR drawing the entire thing, and detecting where clicks go and drawing the interactions. Tedious, but reliable

edgy marlin Jun 28, 2023, 6:01 PM

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Drawing the whole thing i.e. using a pre-drawn static image?

modest slate Jun 28, 2023, 6:01 PM

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No, like telling the computer to draw a rectangle there and a curve there

edgy marlin Jun 28, 2023, 6:01 PM

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Right

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Alright

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Thanks

umbral wedgeBOT Jun 28, 2023, 6:02 PM

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edgy marlin Thanks

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