Adding JButton Array to a applet issue

[john-paul York]

I am creating a simple tic tac toe game and when I try to add a JButton array to the applet it displays nothing, so I have for now went to displaying the buttons one at a time. My code as it stands now is as follows:

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

import java.awt.*;


public class JTicTacToe extends JApplet implements ActionListener
{
	
JLabel messagesLabel=new JLabel("Tic Tac Toe - X goes first");
	
	JPanel gamePanel=new JPanel(new GridLayout(3,3));
	int count=0;
	JButton b1=new JButton("1");
	JButton b2=new JButton("2");
	JButton b3=new JButton("3");
	JButton b4=new JButton("4");
	JButton b5=new JButton("5");
	JButton b6=new JButton("6");
	JButton b7=new JButton("7");
	JButton b8=new JButton("8");
	JButton b9=new JButton("9");

	public void init(){
		getContentPane().setLayout(new BorderLayout());

		getContentPane().add(messagesLabel, BorderLayout.NORTH);
		add(gamePanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);

		b1.addActionListener(this);
		gamePanel.add(b1);
		b2.addActionListener(this);
		gamePanel.add(b2);
		b3.addActionListener(this);
		gamePanel.add(b3);
		b4.addActionListener(this);
		gamePanel.add(b4);
		b5.addActionListener(this);
		gamePanel.add(b5);
		b6.addActionListener(this);
		gamePanel.add(b6);
		b7.addActionListener(this);
		gamePanel.add(b7);
		b8.addActionListener(this);
		gamePanel.add(b8);
		b9.addActionListener(this);
		gamePanel.add(b9);

		getContentPane().add(gamePanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);		
	}


	
	
	public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
	{
		String actionCommand=e.getActionCommand();
		
		if(actionCommand=="1"){
			if(count==0){
				b1.setText("X");
				b1.setEnabled(false);
			}else{
				b1.setText("O");
				count++;
			}
		}

		
	} 
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
	JTicTacToe game = new JTicTacToe();
	
	

	}
}

the code I tried to use to add a JButton array was like this(I used something like this for checkboxes in another program):

JButton[] buttons = new JButton[9];  //placed where the buttons are now

for (int i = 0; i < buttons.length; i++)   //placed in the init()
       {  
        buttons[i] = new JButton(String.valueOf(i + 1));  
        buttons[i].addActionListener(this);  //adding listeners to checkboxes
       } 

for (JButton buttons1: buttons) // placed in the init()
	  {  
		 gamePanel.add(buttons1);     
	  } 

using the above my applet comes up blank..doing it the way at the top..it shows fine.

[Mohamed Sanaulla]

Are you adding the gamePanel to the Applet in the second case (using the JButton array). I dont see how these two are behaving different.

[Darryl Burke]

Moving to our GUIs forum.