Why is this in the console?

[Dark Rain]

I have an applet with 7 textfields (3 for input and 4 for display). Now, the applet runs fine without any syntactic or semantic errors, however I get this:

Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-1" java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: ""
	at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Unknown Source)
	at BirthdayApplet.actionPerformed(BirthdayApplet.java:86)
	at java.awt.TextField.processActionEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.TextField.processEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-1" java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: ""
	at java.lang.NumberFormatException.forInputString(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Integer.parseInt(Unknown Source)
	at BirthdayApplet.actionPerformed(BirthdayApplet.java:89)
	at java.awt.TextField.processActionEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.TextField.processEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(Unknown Source)
	at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(Unknown Source)

Whenever I input something in the textfield and hit enter. Is this a problem, or just console output?

[Wizard1988]

It would really help if you posted your code.

I am not a java guru but I think it might be because the input is in bad format, or it is not getting the input at all

[Dark Rain]

Yeah I'm pretty sure most things in this program are formatted badly right now (I have no idea how to do this program..so I've been trying to work 'around' so to speak and it isn't working out too well). The code isn't commented very much right now but the problem is this:

Write a program that tells the day of the week someone's birthday falls on this year.

Somewhere along the way my professor wants us to call a method that validates if the year the user put in is a leap year (I'm not sure why). A couple of things are still messed up (January 1, 2000 and January 1, 2001 both come out to be Saturday even though I incremented the date if the year was a leap year).

Here is the code:

import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

public class BirthdayApplet extends Applet implements ActionListener 
{

	//	Declare instance variables
	private int year;
	private int month;
	private int day;
	private int dayOfYear;
	private String dayOfWeek;
	
	/*	
	 * Declare GUI components
	 */
	
	//	Labels
	private Label yearLabel = new Label ("Please enter what year you were " +
										"born (ex: 1968, 1987, 1999)");
	private Label monthLabel = new Label ("Please enter what month you were " +
										 "born (ex: 5, 10, 11)");
	private Label dayLabel = new Label("Please enter what day you were born " +
										  "(ex: 5, 10, 15)");
	private Label programmer = new Label ("Programmed by:  Victor Celaschi, "
			  + " EECS 1560");
	private Label comboLabel = new Label ("This year your birthday falls on: ");
	
	//	Textfields
	private TextField yearField = new TextField(10);
	private TextField monthField = new TextField(10);
	private TextField dayField = new TextField(10);
	private TextField yearResultField = new TextField(10);
	private TextField monthResultField = new TextField(10);
	private TextField dayResultField = new TextField(10);
	private TextField comboField = new TextField(20);
	
	
	public void init()
	{
		// Make inputField editable and add an actionListener
		yearField.setEditable(true);
		yearField.addActionListener(this);
		yearResultField.setEditable(false);
		monthField.setEditable(true);
		monthField.addActionListener(this);
		monthResultField.setEditable(false);
		dayField.setEditable(true);
		dayField.addActionListener(this);
		dayResultField.setEditable(false);
		comboField.setEditable(false);
		
		//	Add the components to the interface
		add(monthLabel);
		add(monthField);
		add(monthResultField);
		add(dayLabel);
		add(dayField);
		add(dayResultField);
		add(yearLabel);
		add(yearField);
		add(yearResultField);
		add(comboLabel);
		add(comboField);
		add(programmer);
		
		//	Set the applet's size
		setSize(600,150);
	}// init()
	
	public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
	{
		month = Integer.parseInt(monthField.getText());
		String getMonth = getMonthOfYear(month);
		monthResultField.setText(getMonth);
		day = Integer.parseInt(dayField.getText());
		dayOfWeek = Integer.toString(day);
		dayResultField.setText(dayOfWeek);
		year = Integer.parseInt(yearField.getText());
		String getYear = Integer.toString(year);
		yearResultField.setText(getYear);
		dayOfYear = dayOfYear(month, day, year);
		dayOfYear = dayOfYear % 7;
		String stringStuff = getDayOfWeek(dayOfYear);
		comboField.setText(stringStuff);
		
	}
	
	//	Returns the day of the year, given month and day
	public int dayOfYear(int month, int day, int year)
	{
		int assignMonth = month;
		int assignDay = day;
		int assignYear = year;
		int returnValue;
		
		switch (assignMonth)
		{
		case 1:
			returnValue = 0;
			break;
		case 2:
			returnValue = 31;
			break;
		case 3:
			returnValue = 59;
			break;
		case 4:
			returnValue = 90;
			break;
		case 5:
			returnValue = 120;
			break;
		case 6:
			returnValue = 151;
			break;
		case 7:
			returnValue = 181;
			break;
		case 8:
			returnValue = 212;
			break;
		case 9:
			returnValue = 243;
			break;
		case 10:
			returnValue = 273;
			break;
		case 11:
			returnValue = 304;
			break;
		case 12:
			returnValue = 334;
			break;
		default:
			returnValue = 0;
		}
		
		if (assignMonth > 2 && Year.isLeapYear(assignYear))
		{
			returnValue++;
			return returnValue + assignDay;
		} else {
			return returnValue + assignDay;
		}
	}
	
	// Returns the day of the week for days in 2005
	public String getDayOfWeek(int days)
	{
		int assignDayOfWeek = days;
		
		//	First day of year Saturday
		switch (assignDayOfWeek)
		{
		case 0:
			return "Friday";
		case 1:
			return "Saturday";
		case 2:
			return "Sunday";
		case 3:
			return "Monday";
		case 4:
			return "Tuesday";
		case 5:
			return "Wednesday";
		case 6:
			return "Thursday";
		case 7: 
			return "Friday";
		default:
			return "No date set";
		} // switch()
	} // getDayOfWeek()
	
	//	Returns the month of the year for months in 2005
	public String getMonthOfYear(int months)
	{
		int assignMonthOfYear = months;
		
		switch (assignMonthOfYear)
		{
		case 1:
			return "January";
		case 2: 
			return "February";
		case 3:
			return "March";
		case 4:
			return "April";
		case 5: 
			return "May";
		case 6:
			return "June";
		case 7:
			return "July";
		case 8:
			return "August";
		case 9:
			return "September";
		case 10:
			return "October";
		case 11:
			return "November";
		case 12:
			return "December";
		default:
			return "No month set";
		}// switch()
	}// getMonthOfYear()
} // BirthdayApplet

Now, I don't know if incrementing the date if the year was a leap year is right or not (because no matter what the date is still going to fall on the same day this year no matter what year you were born). But we were asked to put a check in..so I did.

[Wizard1988]

What is this code supposed to do?

if (assignMonth > 2 && year.isLeapYear(assignYear))
		{
			returnValue++;
			return returnValue + assignDay;
		} else {
			return returnValue + assignDay;
		}

I don't understand what you are trying to do with

year.isLeapYear(assignYear)

Is that supposed to check if the current year is a leap year and thats all?

[Wizard1988]

I don't know if your professor wants you do do the calculations by yourself, but I am pretty sure you can use GregorianCalandar to figure out the Day of the week of a given data

[Dark Rain]

If the month is greater than February then it checks if the year is a leap year. If so, it adds one to the day variable, adjusting the day of the week accordingly. I don't really know if that needs to be there..because one of the months is bound to have 32 days now throwing everything off, and even if someone was born on a leap year their birthday will still fall on the same day of the week this year.

I wonder if I should just get rid of that check, or make it so only February is affected by the leap year?

[Wizard1988]

I found a shortcut for performig the check. I don't know if this is the way your professor wants this to be done.

I used GregorianCalendar, First I created a date and I just used its method to return the day of the week.

import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;

import java.util.*;


public class BirthdayApplet extends Applet implements ActionListener 
{

	//	Declare instance variables
	private int year;
	private int month;
	private int day;
	private int dayOfYear;
	private String dayOfWeek;
	
	/*	
	 * Declare GUI components
	 */
	
	//	Labels
	private Label yearLabel = new Label ("Please enter what year you were " +
										"born (ex: 1968, 1987, 1999)");
	private Label monthLabel = new Label ("Please enter what month you were " +
										 "born (ex: 5, 10, 11)");
	private Label dayLabel = new Label("Please enter what day you were born " +
										  "(ex: 5, 10, 15)");
	private Label programmer = new Label ("Programmed by:  Victor Celaschi, "
			  + " EECS 1560");
	private Label comboLabel = new Label ("This year your birthday falls on: ");
	
	//	Textfields
	private TextField yearField = new TextField(10);
	private TextField monthField = new TextField(10);
	private TextField dayField = new TextField(10);
	private TextField yearResultField = new TextField(10);
	private TextField monthResultField = new TextField(10);
	private TextField dayResultField = new TextField(10);
	private TextField comboField = new TextField(20);
	
	
	//Used for determining if year is a leap year
	GregorianCalendar calendar = new GregorianCalendar();

	
	
	public void init()
	{
		// Make inputField editable and add an actionListener
		yearField.setEditable(true);
		yearField.addActionListener(this);
		yearResultField.setEditable(false);
		monthField.setEditable(true);
		monthField.addActionListener(this);
		monthResultField.setEditable(false);
		dayField.setEditable(true);
		dayField.addActionListener(this);
		dayResultField.setEditable(false);
		comboField.setEditable(false);
		
		//	Add the components to the interface
		add(monthLabel);
		add(monthField);
		add(monthResultField);
		add(dayLabel);
		add(dayField);
		add(dayResultField);
		add(yearLabel);
		add(yearField);
		add(yearResultField);
		add(comboLabel);
		add(comboField);
		add(programmer);
		
		//	Set the applet's size
		setSize(600,150);
	}// init()
	
	public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
	{
		month = Integer.parseInt(monthField.getText());
		String getMonth = getMonthOfYear(month);
		monthResultField.setText(getMonth);
		day = Integer.parseInt(dayField.getText());
		dayOfWeek = Integer.toString(day);
		dayResultField.setText(dayOfWeek);
		year = Integer.parseInt(yearField.getText());
		String getYear = Integer.toString(year);
		yearResultField.setText(getYear);
		
		String stringStuff = getDayOfWeek(month, day, year);
		comboField.setText(stringStuff);
		
	}
	
	//	Returns the day of the year, given month and day
//	public int dayOfYear()
//	{
		
		
//	}
	
	// Returns the day of the week for days in 2005
	public String getDayOfWeek(int month, int day, int year)
	{
		
		calendar.set(year,month,day);
		int dayInWeek = calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK;
		
		
		//	First day of year Saturday
		switch (dayInWeek)
		{
		case 1:
			return "Sunday";
		case 2:
			return "Monday";
		case 3:
			return "Tuesday";
		case 4:
			return "Wednesday";
		case 5:
			return "Thursday";
		case 6:
			return "Friday";
		case 7:
			return "Saturday";
		default:
			return "No date set";
		} // switch()
	} // getDayOfWeek()
	
	//	Returns the month of the year for months in 2005
	public String getMonthOfYear(int months)
	{
		int assignMonthOfYear = months;
		
		switch (assignMonthOfYear)
		{
		case 1:
			return "January";
		case 2: 
			return "February";
		case 3:
			return "March";
		case 4:
			return "April";
		case 5: 
			return "May";
		case 6:
			return "June";
		case 7:
			return "July";
		case 8:
			return "August";
		case 9:
			return "September";
		case 10:
			return "October";
		case 11:
			return "November";
		case 12:
			return "December";
		default:
			return "No month set";
		}// switch()
	}// getMonthOfYear()
} // BirthdayApplet

I hope this helps

[Dark Rain]

Interesting. Although I figured out why I was getting junk in the console..I had no e.getSource() parameters..so the console didn't know that the textfields were actually getting input. All works great now, except one minor thing. If someone types a string into the textfield..the console will fill up with junk again because it doesn't know how to handle strings. Is there someway I can check that the input is a number?

Thanks for all your help so far.

[Wizard1988]

Try this

try 
{ 
i=Interger.parseInt(TextField.getText());
}
catch(Exception e){System.out.println("Bad Input");}

It doesen't really check, but If there is something wrong with the input it allows you to print out a message saying that something is wrong with the input