Need help with one piece of code.

[Mack Grill]

I'm making an applet that randomly displays three images with a string of text on one of the images.

The problem I'm having is trying to get the string of text just to appear on a specific image.

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

public class MyPictures extends Applet {
Image action;
private String message="";

public void start(){
int rint = (int)(Math.random() * 3);
if(rint == 0){
    action = getImage(getDocumentBase(), "images/image 3.jpg");
    String message="The Forest of Bent Trees";
} else if(rint == 1){
    action = getImage(getDocumentBase(), "images/image 1.jpg");
} else {
    action = getImage(getDocumentBase(), "images/image 2.jpg");
}
}
    public void paint(Graphics graph) {
    graph.drawImage(action, 10, 50, this);
    graph.drawString("", 475, 30);
     resize(1200,900);   
    }
}

[Jesper de Jong]

I see a few problems:

In line 12 you are creating a new local variable called message that isn't used. You probably wanted to set the member variable declared in line 6 to some message. If that's the case, change line 12 to:

message = "The Forest of Bent Trees";

Without the type String in front of it, because that means you're declaring a new variable instead of setting the existing member variable.

In line 21 you're drawing the empty string "". You probably meant to draw the message there instead:

graph.drawString(message, 475, 30);