Java Vending Machine Program

[JohnSmith70]

I'm trying to write a vending machine program so far I've been able to do everything except add drinks.

public class VM{

public VM(int price)
{
	Cost= Price;
	String vend [][] = new String [2][2];
	drinks= new ArrayList();
}

}

I'm trying to write addDrink() method, but have not been able to.

I'm trying to use something like drink.add(new vend(Drink_variable)), but haven't been able to. I've been reading many books but all the examples there write something else. e.g.drink.add(new vend(price p)).

Its driving me mad. I have no where to turn to. Reading books are not helping. I have no one I can ask help for. People just don't care. Probably this post that I'm writing right now will be of no use, since I won't get any useful feedback. It's easy to say write a for loop, declare an object, write a class for this or that. But I haven't been able to implement this. If I could see at least a similar example may I can learn something.

I don't know how I can add an item to an array. So everytime I call the addDrink method the list of Drinks in the array should increase. So when I display them I can see a list of the drinks I've added. And also, I should be able to determine its price and slot(eg A1) when adding.

If someone can write an example of just the add method to a vending machine that will be very helpful.

I can send you the full code that I have done so far if you want.

I would appreciate any feedback.

Regards,

John

[nspils]

How are you representing the drink objects? I assume you would have an instance of a class or a structure which has a price and slot component

Use a vector rather than an array for each of your slots ... it grows ... you can query its size, you can use the Vector class' add and remove methods, etc.