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[ahmed]

I want to make a simulation similar to Conway's Game of Life with my own rules. The problem is that i have never coded any image processing software. I was thinking to use JButtons as the box , but i think that will be too heavy , so any good ideas on how i can do that?

[ZekeDragon]

This really does necessitate a custom widget. I'd suggest you learn about painting with the Swing API. There isn't really any usable J-Widget for this, with the possible exception of JTable with seriously custom TableModel and TableCellRenderer subclasses. I wouldn't know how to do that with this widget though.

[lethalwire]

Cool game idea.
I might give this a go.

I'd create a class that represents my grid. My grid would be contained inside of a 2-dimensional boolean array.
After this, instead of using JButtons, I'd custom paint over JPanel.

An example might help though:
Creating the Demo Application (Step 3) (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing > Performing Custom Painting)

[ahmed]

well , aren't there any cellular automation tools in which you just define the rules and then rest of the work is done by the application?

[lethalwire]

Have you tried sourceforge?

SourceForge.net: Software Search[]=trove%3A198

You can most likely extend some of the frameworks people have created.

Edited by lethalwire, 01 April 2011 - 02:33 PM.