Drawing dotted lines

Hey
I've already figured out how to draw dotted lines so that's not the questions
the thing is I only need to draw some lines as dotted, some as dashed and all others just normal..
I figured I could make radiobox to select which line.. then I save that to an array of some sort and then in the paintComponent thing I should make an if to check for array value and change the stoke according to that
so far I've just made my lines dotted like this
http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=114099
but now everything is dotted.. even the borders around my buttons..
ni my applet I have some buttons which are connected with a line.. I want that line dotted or dashed when the users wants it to.. and only then otherwise just normal lines
I couldn't find anything about that on the google =(

done!
now I want to be able to use diffrent line style combinations but it doesn't work
currently it only uses the linestyle that you selected for the first line and then uses that for every line after that too
this is my code
     public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
          super.paintComponent(g);
          Graphics2D g2d = (Graphics2D)g;
          g2d.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
          g2d.setColor(lijnKleur);
          for (int i = 0; i < Main.XList.size(); i++) {
               int j = (i - 1);
               int k = (i + 1);
               int aantal = 0;
               if ((k % 2 == 0) && (i != 0)) {
                    if (Main.lijnstyleList.get(aantal) == 1){
                         g2d.setStroke(normaal);
                    else if (Main.lijnstyleList.get(aantal) == 2){
                         g2d.setStroke(gestippeld);
                    else if (Main.lijnstyleList.get(aantal) == 3){
                         g2d.setStroke(gestreept);
                    else{
                         g2d.setStroke(normaal);
                    int tmpX_oud = Main.XList.get(j) + (Main.breedte / 2);
                    int tmpY_oud = Main.YList.get(j) + (Main.hoogte / 2);
                    int tmpX = Main.XList.get(i) + (Main.breedte / 2);
                    int tmpY = Main.YList.get(i) + (Main.hoogte / 2);
                    aantal++;
                    if (tmpY_oud > tmpY){
                         tmpY = tmpY + (Main.hoogte / 2);
                         int half = tmpY + (Main.spacing / 2);
                         if ((tmpY_oud != tmpY) && (tmpX_oud != tmpX)) {
                              g2d.drawLine(tmpX_oud, tmpY_oud, tmpX_oud, half);
                              g2d.drawLine(tmpX_oud, half, tmpX, half);
                              g2d.drawLine(tmpX, half, tmpX, tmpY);
                         else{
                              g2d.drawLine(tmpX_oud, tmpY_oud, tmpX, tmpY);
                         g2d.drawLine(tmpX, tmpY, tmpX - 5, tmpY + 8);
                         g2d.drawLine(tmpX, tmpY, tmpX + 5, tmpY + 8);
                    else if (tmpY_oud < tmpY){
                         tmpY = tmpY - (Main.hoogte / 2);
                         int half = tmpY - (Main.spacing / 2);
                         if ((tmpY_oud != tmpY) && (tmpX_oud != tmpX)) {
                              g2d.drawLine(tmpX_oud, tmpY_oud, tmpX_oud, half);
                              g2d.drawLine(tmpX_oud, half, tmpX, half);
                              g2d.drawLine(tmpX, half, tmpX, tmpY);
                         else{
                              g2d.drawLine(tmpX_oud, tmpY_oud, tmpX, tmpY);
                         g2d.drawLine(tmpX, tmpY, tmpX - 5, tmpY - 8);
                         g2d.drawLine(tmpX, tmpY, tmpX + 5, tmpY - 8);
                    else {
                         if (tmpX_oud > tmpX){
                              tmpX = tmpX + (Main.breedte / 2);
                              g2d.drawLine(tmpX_oud, tmpY_oud, tmpX, tmpY);
                              g2d.drawLine(tmpX, tmpY, tmpX + 8, tmpY - 5);
                              g2d.drawLine(tmpX, tmpY, tmpX + 8, tmpY + 5);
                         else{
                              tmpX = tmpX - (Main.breedte / 2);
                              g2d.drawLine(tmpX_oud, tmpY_oud, tmpX, tmpY);
                              g2d.drawLine(tmpX, tmpY, tmpX - 8, tmpY - 5);
                              g2d.drawLine(tmpX, tmpY, tmpX - 8, tmpY + 5);
          g2d.setStroke(normaal);
     }**EDIT**
according to this it can be done..
http://java.sun.com/developer/JDCTechTips/2003/tt0520.htm
no clue why mine doesn't work then
Edited by: Nizzle on Sep 13, 2007 10:15 AM

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