Making a good looking grid in Swing

[Matthieu Saenen]

Hello everyone, at the end of next week I need a Battleship game, but I'm stuck with making a 2d grid. I have to make something like the photo, but i don't even know how to begin on it. In the grid it are all nice squares and they are all nice ligned out, How did they do that?

http://www.imagebam.com/image/687e73241745809

[Campbell Ritchie]

Welcome to the Ranch

Fix the sizes of all those squares. Try a grid layout. There are lots of layouts, which you can find about in the Java Tutorials.

[Campbell Ritchie]

Use gradient painting for that colour shading. Draw multiple lines at right angles to each other. (This suggestion is instead of the layout and many squares, not in addition.)

[Cameron Miller]

Draw the background, then use two for loops to draw the grid, one for the vertical lines and one for the horizontal lines. E.g.

GradientPaint grad = new GradientPaint...
g.setPaint(grad);
g.fillRect(10, 10, 100, 100)

for(int x = 10, x <= 110; x += 10)
      g.drawLine(x, 10, x, 110)

for(int y = 10, y <= 110; y += 10)
      g.drawLine(10, y, 110, y)

This would create a 10x10 grid starting at (10, 10).