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applet to change an image when keypressed

 
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Im new to all this and having a really hard time in this class. any help and explaination would be greatly appreciated,

what im trying to do is get the image to change depending on direction, i have the images ill send em if you need them, i know im doing something wrong i just cant seem to get what though. thanks in advance for any help!

 
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If you want the JLabel to change in some way then you have to call one of its methods. Assigning a value to some other variable isn't going to change the JLabel.
 
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Paul Clapham wrote:If you want the JLabel to change in some way then you have to call one of its methods. Assigning a value to some other variable isn't going to change the JLabel.



ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh i get it now!!! thanks so much
 
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damnit maybe not... ;-\ ill keep trying thanks though!
 
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tried this, and it doesnt initialize. What am i doing wrong?
imA = getImage(getCodeBase(),"aru.gif");
is there a way to change the text within the "" there?
 
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You add an image to a JLabel by changing the Icon of the label. You create the label with a default Icon, but you never invoke label.setIcon(...) to change the Icon.

Also, you should NOT be reading the image every time you press a key. You should read all 4 images at the start of your program so the images are in memory.
 
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Rob Camick wrote:You add an image to a JLabel by changing the Icon of the label. You create the label with a default Icon, but you never invoke label.setIcon(...) to change the Icon.

Also, you should NOT be reading the image every time you press a key. You should read all 4 images at the start of your program so the images are in memory.


ok so im reading the images at the top like this


now where would i put the label.setIcon? under every buttonpush?
 
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i corrected the typos there...
 
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ok so far i have this, im not sure how or where to put the code to change labels though :-\

 
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As Rob Camick said a while back, if you want the JLabel's icon to change then you have to call the JLabel's setIcon() method with the image you want it to change to.
 
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ok but where should I put this?
 
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