Mixing textfields and graphics

Question

My students are creating a simulation that uses graphics paint and repaint to draw circles at random locations in a container. This is an applet. Currently our initial conditions (radius, number circles, etc. ) are "hardwired" in the code. We want a GUI "JTestfield to let the user input initial conditions. The problem is the init() method runs before we can get the user input.
Question: How can we create a GUI user input that will allow user to input initial conditions before the graphics methods execute in our applet?

Answer 1

Why don't you just use the textfield's setText method, like so:
public void ActionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
   if (Interger.parseInt(e.getActionCommand()) == rigthAnswer) input.setText("You got it!");
   else input.setText("Hey man, you're wrong,but don't give up");
}The above is predicated on the valid use of the condition you're checking for (I don't know what rightAnswer is, hopefully it's defined somewhere!).
;o)
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