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From: "Brandon McCombs" <brandon.mccombs@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this>
Subject: Re: Using a method to cha
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KDawg44 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a series of buttons name
> 
> btnPXxY where X and Y are numbers ranging from 0 to 10 in a grid of
> buttons.  For example, a button name btnP0x0 and another named btnP0x1
> etc.

Why not create a 10x10 array to hold the pointers to the buttons? The 
Object that btnArray[0][1] would point to would be the button at that 
grid location.
> 
> When the buttons are pressed I want to pass integers x and y to a
> method.  This method is going to a bunch of things with these numbers
> but one thing i would like to do would be to change the color of the
> button corresponding to this.

Each button can be its own listener and change its own color by waiting 
for the Action Event to be generated when a user clicks it. By doing it 
that way you don't need to know what the x and y values are. Each button 
changes itself and would implicitly know what to change.

> 
> How can I pass the variables x and y into another variable name?  is
> this possible?  something along the lines of:
> 
> btnP + varX + x + varY. bgcolor = red.


I personally don't understand what the above line is supposed to do.

> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.  I am HOPING that I do not have to pass
> the button object into the function since I will have to change a
> bunch of code for these buttons.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
hope that helps

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