public colours problem

[pt111]

This is probably a really basic question but;

I need to carry out an assignment statement in my applet which is a colour picker. There is a grid of 12 coloured buttons and when you click one I want it to assign that colour to a public colour named current colour. So then I will be able to set the background or text of something else to whatever the current colour is.

The way I did it with numbers was to have a

public int currentnumber at the top and then I used

if (e.getSource()==b1) currentnumber =1;

this is what I want to do only instead of numbers to use colours.

like I said i'm probably missing something really simple but i'd appreciate any help

thanks in advance

[Fantik]

post your code, or at least what you have so far.

use code blocks please.

[MasterOfSouls]

If you want to store which color it is after the user clicks the button as the color name, you could do this... at the beginning of the code declare a string (String colorName) and then when you have the source of the event, instead of saying currentnumber = 1, put colorName = "red":

if (e.getSource()==b1) colorName = "red";

When you need to find out what color is chosen later on, you can use the compareTo function, like this:

if (colorName.compareTo("red") == 0) {
//The color is red
}
else if (colorName.compareTo("blue") {
//the color is blue
}

etc.
Hope this helps,