Blackjack - using swing (Need Assistance)

Question

Sir and Madam,
I just started learning Java with Java 5.0 Eclipse. I am taking a course for Java Programming. I am wondering if anyone is willing to help me to identify the missing sources or errors so that way I can learn more and more and have my codes runnable. I do not want to post my codes here because it is six pages in length.
If you are willing to help me, you can contact me at [email protected] with a subject "Java Assistance" so that way I can send the zip file to you unless you do not mind for me to post my code here.
My codes look pretty messy, I only learned since last March.
Really appreciate your assistance,
TT

Answer 1

Thanks for replying.. out of 6 pages of codes, I wrote most of them and they have no errors and test them with system.out.println. The output works very well until I added other class called Blackjack, the final class that contains all Swing and AWT containers/components. (I use Java 5.0)
The specific part of a whole 6 pages I need help is (check below):
(Note: class Card - create a single card contains both ImageIcon and value.
class Deck - create a whole deck with 52 cards contains two arrays of ImageIcon and values into Card[52], shuffle the cards etc..
class Player - create an array of class Card[10], calling for other card)
Now, the class Blackjack where it wont work.
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
class Blackjack extends JFrame implements ActionListener, Runnable
     //Creating three buttons that operates the game
     private JButton buttonHit = new JButton("Hit");
     private JButton buttonStay = new JButton("Stay");
     private JButton buttonReset = new JButton("New Game");     
     ImageIcon addIcon = null;
     boolean loaded = false;     
     //Indexing the array's cells
     int element = 0;     
     //Displays the result in message
     String message;     
     int iwidth;
     int iheight;     
     int cwidth = 1;
     int pad = 1;          
     //Counting the games played
     private int games = -1;
     //Creating an object of class Deck
     private Deck deck;     
     //Creating two objects of class Player (player vs dealer)
     private Player player;
     private Player dealer;     
     //Create a new game
     void NewGame()
          //Starts with Hit button to add the card
          //so Button "Stay" is not available.
          buttonHit.setEnabled(true);
          buttonStay.setEnabled(false);          
          //Creating a new game included two players
          player = new Player();
          dealer = new Player();          
          //Then shuffle the cards with two players awaits
          deck.shuffleCards();          
          //adds the game that start to play
          games++;
     //activites this function once the Button "HIT" got pressed.
     void hit()
          //Now two choices to press "Hit" or "Stay"
          buttonStay.setEnabled(true);          
          //Displays a new image card
          player.addCard(deck.deal());          
          if(player.getTotalValue() > 21)
               message = "You lost! (score:" + player.getTotalValue() + ")";
               //Disactivites all buttons except "New Game"
               buttonHit.setEnabled(false);
               buttonStay.setEnabled(false);
               return;
          message = "Score:" + player.getTotalValue();
     //activites this function once the Button "Stay" got pressed
     void stay()
          while(dealer.getTotalValue() < 17)
               dealer.addCard(deck.deal());
          if(dealer.getTotalValue() <= 21 && player.getTotalValue() < dealer.getTotalValue())
               message = "You lost! (" + player.getTotalValue()+
                         " - "+dealer.getTotalValue()+")";
          else if (player.getTotalValue() == dealer.getTotalValue())
               message = "You draw! (" + player.getTotalValue()+
                         " - "+dealer.getTotalValue()+")";
          else
               message = "You win! (" + player.getTotalValue()+
                         " - "+dealer.getTotalValue()+")";
          //disables buttons "Hit" or "Stay"
          buttonHit.setEnabled(false);
          buttonStay.setEnabled(false);
     //for ActionListener and ActionEvent communication
     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent AEvt)
          //Only when Button "New Game" got pressed
          if(AEvt.getSource() == buttonReset)
               NewGame();
          //Only when Button "Hit" got pressed
          else if(AEvt.getSource() == buttonHit)
               hit();
          //Only when Button "Stay" got pressed
          else if(AEvt.getSource() == buttonStay)
               stay();
          invalidate();
     Blackjack(String title)
          super(title);
          getContentPane().setLayout(new FlowLayout());
          setSize(800,600);
          SetupButt();
          setVisible(true);
     void SetupButt()
          buttonHit.setToolTipText("Click here for other card.");
          buttonStay.setToolTipText("Click here for no more card.");
          buttonReset.setToolTipText("Click here to start a new game.");
          buttonHit.addActionListener(this);
          buttonStay.addActionListener(this);
          buttonReset.addActionListener(this);
          getContentPane().add(buttonHit);
          getContentPane().add(buttonStay);
          getContentPane().add(buttonReset);
     public static void main(String[] args)
          Blackjack Demo = new Blackjack("Blackjack Card Game");
          Demo.init();
     void init()
          Thread CardLoader = new Thread(this);
          CardLoader.start();
     ImageIcon[] load_images = new ImageIcon[52];
     public void run()
          deck = new Deck(this,load_images);          
          buttonHit.setEnabled(false);
          buttonStay.setEnabled(false);          
          iwidth = getSize().width;
          iheight = getSize().height;          
          this.invalidate();          
          invalidate();
     public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
if(pad == -1)
               pad = (iwidth - (cwidth * 2) - 4)/4;
          g.setColor(Color.GREEN);
          g.fillRect(0, 0, iwidth, iheight);
          g.setColor(Color.BLACK);
          g.fillRect(1,1, iwidth-2, iheight-2);
          g.setColor(Color.WHITE);
          g.drawString("YOU: ", pad, 40);
          g.drawString("DEALER:", (iwidth/2) + pad, 40);
          g.drawString(message, 5, iheight-20);
          if(games>0)
               g.drawString(games + " game(s) played...", 5,
                         iheight - 8);
          int nowCard;
          for(int i = 0; i < player.getCardCount(); i++)
               nowCard = player.getCards().GetValue();
(Error here)     g.drawImage(new ImageIcon("images/" + nowCard + ".gif"), pad,
                         70 + (20*(i-1)), this);
          for(int i = 0; i < dealer.getCardCount(); i++)
               nowCard = dealer.getCards()[i].GetValue();
(Error here) g.drawImage(new ImageIcon("images/" + nowCard + ".gif"), pad,
                         70 + (20*(i-1)), this);
          super.paintComponents(g);
Message was edited by:
Turyturbo
Message was edited by:
Turyturbo