Applet displaying text upside down

Question

I'm writing a minesweeper game (though this is mostly irrelevant), and am at the stage where I am displaying strings in an applet. For some reason, the applet insists on displaying everything UPSIDE DOWN. I have no clue why it would do this, so I'm wondering if anyone has suggestions.
Here is the applet code (will supply more upon request):
import java.applet.Applet;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class MineFieldApplet extends Applet
    private static final int FIELD_SIZE = 10;
    private static final int NUM_MINES = 5;
    private final double XMAX = FIELD_SIZE - 1;
    private final double XMIN = 0;
    private final double YMAX = 0;
    private final double YMIN = -(FIELD_SIZE - 1);
    private MineField field;
    private Rectangle box;
    private static final int BOX_X = 0;
    private static final int BOX_Y = 0;
    private static final int BOX_WIDTH = 2;
    private static final int BOX_HEIGHT = 2;
    public MineFieldApplet()
        field = new MineField(FIELD_SIZE, NUM_MINES);
        class FieldListener implements MouseListener
         public void mousePressed(MouseEvent event)
             sweep(FIELD_SIZE - 1 - (int)event.getY(), FIELD_SIZE - 1 - (int)event.getX());
             repaint();
         public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent event) {}
         public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent event) {}
         public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent event) {}
         public void mouseExited(MouseEvent event) {}
        MouseListener listener = new FieldListener();
        addMouseListener(listener);
    public void sweep(int row, int column)
        field.sweep(row, column);
    public void paint(Graphics g)
        Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
        double xscale = (getWidth() - 1.0) / (XMAX -XMIN);
        double yscale = (getHeight() - 1.0) / (YMIN -YMAX);
        g2.scale(xscale, yscale);
        g2.translate(-XMIN, -YMAX);
        g2.setStroke(new BasicStroke(0));
        g2.clearRect(0, 0, (int)XMAX, (int)YMAX);
        g2.setFont(new Font("Monospaced", Font.PLAIN, 1));
        g2.drawString(field.getString(0, 0), 1, 0);
}

Answer 1

If the y scale param is -ive every thing goes upside
down
if your x scale parm is -ive you get a mirror immage
so thats
it.I think I know why your y scale is -ive double
yscale =
(getHeight() - 1.0) / (YMIN -YMAX);
The numerator is obviously -ive since min - max <0Then why didn't it help when I suggested negating xScale and yScale?
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