Dynamic components

Question

Hi,
In the case where I don't know how many buttons I'll need until runtime how can I dynamically generate button names? It would be something like this, in a shell script:
i = 0
n = <generated at runtime>
while (( i<n ))
do
    JButton b_$i = new JButton();
    i++;
doneLater I would call another loop to register buttons that had not already been registered, ie: if n goes higher than it was last time through this loop.
I also need to do this w/ checkboxes, where I want to put a checkbox at the beginning of each line but I don't know in advance how many lines I'll have.
Thanks,
Victor

Answer 1

you're not suggesting that the b_$i substition is legal are you? as in
b_1
b_2
b_3
I'll have to look into your suggestions.
As far as registering seperately the reason is I'll have to repaint this button panel and change the button names as the app is used. Picture a panel w/ 10 buttons each labeled w/ a fruit name, for example. If I add a fruit, say Apple, every button greater than Apple has to be shifted right so that the Apple button takes it's place in the sorted order. So I need to keep button initializations/management seperate. I never know how many fruit the user will add, nor what the fruit name will be. Don't even know how many fruit are in the file at startup time.