For Loop Help

[naazrael]

i'm using a for loop to iterate through an Arraylist of objects...
each object is a new window, and only want the for loop to continue after I close each new object..
i can't figure out how to do that, anyone got an idea?

here's where the for loop is.

 public void actionPerformed (ActionEvent guiEvent) 
   {
      if (guiEvent.getActionCommand ().equals("Add")) 
      {  // determine origin of event
	      if (choice1Prompt.getText().equals(answerPrompt.getText()))
	      {
	           Card localCard = new Card();
	           localCard.setQuestion(questionPrompt.getText());
	           localCard.setChoice1(choice1Prompt.getText());
	           localCard.setChoice2(choice2Prompt.getText());
	           localCard.setChoice3(choice3Prompt.getText());
	           localCard.setChoice4(choice4Prompt.getText());
	           localCard.setAnswer(answerPrompt.getText());
	           cardList.add(localCard);  // create cardList arrayList element object
	      }
	      else if (choice2Prompt.getText().equals(answerPrompt.getText()))
	      {
	      	   Card localCard = new Card();
	           localCard.setQuestion(questionPrompt.getText());
	           localCard.setChoice1(choice1Prompt.getText());
	           localCard.setChoice2(choice2Prompt.getText());
	           localCard.setChoice3(choice3Prompt.getText());
	           localCard.setChoice4(choice4Prompt.getText());
	           localCard.setAnswer(answerPrompt.getText());      	
	           cardList.add(localCard);  // create cardList arrayList element object
	      }
	      else if (choice3Prompt.getText().equals(answerPrompt.getText()))
	      {
	      	   Card localCard = new Card();
	           localCard.setQuestion(questionPrompt.getText());
	           localCard.setChoice1(choice1Prompt.getText());
	           localCard.setChoice2(choice2Prompt.getText());
	           localCard.setChoice3(choice3Prompt.getText());
	           localCard.setChoice4(choice4Prompt.getText());
	           localCard.setAnswer(answerPrompt.getText());      	
	           cardList.add(localCard);  // create cardList arrayList element object


	      }
	      else if(choice4Prompt.getText().equals(answerPrompt.getText()))
	      {
	      	   Card localCard = new Card();
	           localCard.setQuestion(questionPrompt.getText());
	           localCard.setChoice1(choice1Prompt.getText());
	           localCard.setChoice2(choice2Prompt.getText());
	           localCard.setChoice3(choice3Prompt.getText());
	           localCard.setChoice4(choice4Prompt.getText());
	           localCard.setAnswer(answerPrompt.getText());      	
	           cardList.add(localCard);  // create cardList arrayList element object
	      }
	      else
	      {
	      		JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Answer does not equal one of the choices.\nYou must type in an answer equal to one of the choices.");
	      }

              // reinitialize input fields
              answerPrompt.setText("... enter answer...");
              answerPrompt.selectAll();
              answerPrompt.requestFocus();
      }

      else if (guiEvent.getActionCommand().equals("Use FlashCards")) 
      {  // determine origin of event
      		
      		boolean finished = false;
      		
			if (!(cardList.isEmpty()))
			{
				for (Iterator<Card> count = cardList.iterator(); count.hasNext();)
        		{
        			Card localCard = (Card)count.next();
        			CardPanel localPanel = new CardPanel(localCard);
        		}
			}
			else
			{
				JOptionPane.showMessageDialog (null, "No FlashCards Loaded!");
			}
      }

      else if (guiEvent.getActionCommand().equals("Exit")) 
      {
         System.out.println("\nThank you and good bye!\n");
         System.exit(0); // terminate program normally
      }
    }

here's all the code, in case some needs it:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/naazrael/FlashCardsPro.zip

[pimpJ]

I didn't really look at all the code.. but from reading the question:

could you not just say something to the effect of:
while(theArrayList.get(i).isVisible() == true){}

which would loop until the window was closed. Or you could do it more eloquently with WindowClosing events.. but it seems like the first option would work

[naazrael]

well, i'll check out that while loop...
i can't compile anything right now, so yeah.

but, just to clarify, i want this code:

		for (Iterator<Card> count = cardList.iterator(); count.hasNext();)
        		{
        			Card localCard = (Card)count.next();
        			CardPanel localPanel = new CardPanel(localCard);
        		}

the localCard just stores the data, and the localPanel is the GUI for localCard.
i want this code to create a localPanel object, and only create a new object after that first localPanel is closed.