Need help with editing variables.

[raul vargas]

I'm trying to make an applet that will display 3 images on one applet but with each instance being a random order of the images.

I'm having trouble determining how to edit the variables so that the switch will work effectively

Here are both parts of my code:

import java.awt.Color;


public class Dukes {
        
        private Color noseColor = Color.red; 
        private String action = "../../images/duke/dukeWave.gif"; 
        private String whatDoing = "Give me something to do"; 
        private String message= "";
        
        public Dukes() 
        {
            int rint = (int)(Math.random() * 3); 
            if (rint == 0) 
            {
                noseColor = Color.blue;   
                action = "../../images/duke/dukeWave2.gif";
                message = "What's up with the blue nose!";
            }		
         }
       
       
         public String getAction()
         {
             return whatDoing;
         }  
         public String getActionImage()
         {
             return action;
         }          
         public Color getNoseColor()
         {
             return noseColor;
         }          
         public String getMessage()
         {
             return message;
         }
       
         public String write()
         {
             whatDoing = "I am a writing Duke";   
             if (noseColor == Color.red)
             {
             action = "../../images/duke/penduke.gif";
             message = "";
             }
             else
             {
             action = "../../images/duke/penduke2.gif";
             message = "My nose feels funny";
             }
             return action;
          }

          public String think()
          {
             whatDoing = "I am a thinking Duke";
             if (noseColor == Color.red)
             {
             action = "../../images/duke/thinking.gif";
             message = "";
             }
             else 
             {
             action = "../../images/duke/thinking2.gif";
             message = "My nose feels funny";
             }
             return action;
          }
        
          public String wave()
          {
             whatDoing = "I am a waving Duke";
             if (noseColor == Color.red)
             {
             action = "../../images/duke/dukeWave.gif";
             message = "";
             }  
             else 
             {
             action = "../../images/duke/dukeWave2.gif";
             message = "My nose feels funny";
             }
             return action;
           }
        public String Handstand()
        {
        	whatDoing = "I am a hand-standing Duke";
        	if (noseColor == Color.red)
        	{
        	action = "../../images/duke/dukeHandstand.gif";
        	message = "";
        	}
        	else
        	{
        	action = "../../images/duke/dukeHandstand2.gif";
        	message = "My nose feels funny";
        	}
        	return action;
        }
     }

Second part:

import java.applet.Applet;
import java.awt.*;

public class ThreeDukesApplet extends Applet {

	Dukes myDuke, yourDuke, theirDuke;   
	String myAction, yourAction, theirAction;

	public void init() {
        
	    myDuke = new Dukes();            
	    myAction = myDuke.getActionImage();

	    yourDuke =new Dukes();          
	    yourAction =yourDuke.write();
	    theirDuke =new Dukes();
	    theirAction =theirDuke.Handstand();
                
        resize(600,400); 
 
	}
	
	public void paint(Graphics g) {
		
		
		switch ((int)(Math.random() * 3))
		{
		case 0: action= yourDuke.write(); break;
		case 1: action= theirDuke.Handstand(); break;
		case 2: action= myDuke.wave(); break;
		
		}

		Image myChoice = getImage(getDocumentBase(), myAction); 
		g.drawString(myDuke.getAction(), 10,165); 
		g.drawString(myDuke.getMessage(), 10,180);
		g.drawImage(myChoice, 20, 50, Color.white, this);

			
		g.drawString(yourDuke.getAction(), 200,165); 
		g.drawString(yourDuke.getMessage(), 200,180);
		g.drawImage(yourChoice, 200, 50, Color.white, this);
		
		Image theirChoice = getImage(getDocumentBase(), theirAction);
		g.drawString(theirDuke.getAction(), 400, 165);
		g.drawString(theirDuke.getMessage(),400, 180);
		g.drawImage(theirChoice, 400, 50, Color.white, this);
 	}
}

[Campbell Ritchie]

Welcome to the Ranch

We would need some more details, please. For a start: what is happening, and what did you expect to happen?

[raul vargas]

Thank you!

I apologize for not clarifying

I'm trying to make these 3 dukes appear in a different order each time I run the applet but I can't make that happen at the moment.

I'm able to load all of them onto one applet but I can't get them to become random each instance.

[Campbell Ritchie]

So what is happening? Have you put any print statements where you are choosing the different images? How do you know whether they are being loaded? How do you know whether the switch is being executed?

You have some repeated code; there are three places where you set the String to my nose feels funny. That ought to be pulled out as a method of its own, possibly setNoseColour(). That method can have private access. Or, you ought to give the class a constructor, where you set up the nose colour, and possibly the message. Do you ever change nose colour at all?

[raul vargas]

I know the switch is working because when I would run the applet, the first duke didn't say "give me something to do" but " I'm a hand-standing Duke". The images wouldn't change but the string of text would.

The other methods work fine and do load a blue nose with a string of text reading "my nose feels funny" or "what's up with the blue nose"

I just wanna change the order of the dukes each time I run the applet

[Campbell Ritchie]

Why not put the three Dukes into a List, shuffle the List and then retrieve them in the new order.