JColor Chooser - JLabels?

[Jacob Coddaire]

How would I integrate JColorChooser into each player? I know how to do it for JButtons, but I simply cannot figure out how to do it for JLabels.

//in the field
        private ArrayList<String> playerArray = new ArrayList<String>();// array in which the names of the players are stored
	private ArrayList<JLabel> playerLabels = new ArrayList<JLabel>();
        private static int player=0;
        private static String playerSTR;

//prompts the user for the number of players and checks that it is a legit amount
		playerSTR = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("How many players?(2-4)");
        	player = Integer.parseInt(playerSTR);

//prompts the user to input a name, and it doesn't exceed the amount of players.
		playerArray = new ArrayList<String>();
		playerLabels = new ArrayList<JLabel>();
		for (int i=0; i<player; i++)
		{
			name = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter a name:");
			playerArray.add(name);
			playerLabels.add(new JLabel(name));
		}

[Maneesh Godbole]

JOptionPane#showXXX methods accept an Object message argument. You can always pass a JColorChooser instance as the message and check for the color chosen by the user

This question is more suitable for the GUI forums.
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[Jacob Coddaire]

That literally does not make any sense to me.

[Maneesh Godbole]

		JColorChooser colorChooser=new JColorChooser();
		JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,colorChooser);
		System.out.println(colorChooser.getColor());

[Jacob Coddaire]

Ok. I've almost got it. Here's the code so far:

       playerArray = new ArrayList<String>();
		playerLabels = new ArrayList<JLabel>();
		for (int i=0; i<player; i++)
		{
			name = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter a name:");
			playerArray.add(name);
			playerColor = new JColorChooser();
			JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, playerColor);
			playerColor.getColor();
			playerLabels.add(new JLabel(name.[color=red]setForeground[/color](playerColor.getColor())));
		}

It works, but now I want to apply the color to the JLabels of each. I tried the above code, but it didn't work.
I can't compile it because of setForeground. The error is "The method setForeground(Color) is undefined for the type String."

Any ideas on how to fix this?

[Maneesh Godbole]

            playerLabels.add(new JLabel(name.[color=red]setForeground[/color](playerColor.getColor())));  

Mixing HTML stuff with Swing?

You can set the foreground by

label.setForeground(playerColor.getColor());

[Rob Spoor]

Maneesh Godbole wrote:

		JColorChooser colorChooser=new JColorChooser();
		JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,colorChooser);
		System.out.println(colorChooser.getColor());

Wouldn't that do the same as

System.out.println(JColorChooser.showDialog(null, null, null));

[Maneesh Godbole]

Rob Spoor wrote:
Wouldn't that do the same as

System.out.println(JColorChooser.showDialog(null, null, null));

True.
But
1) Using a JOptionPane for the color chooser would offer the user the same experience as the number of players and name prompt
2) JOptionPane would allow the OP to display custom messages. Something like what color for the player?
3) I had JOptionPane so much in mind that I actually forgot about the JCholorChooser#showDialog()