Animal Picker

This program allows you to mix up an animal picture. For example, if "Horns" was picked, the picture would change like this:

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Create a folder to hold all of this project.

1. This game requires a fair bit of work in paint before you begin. In paint, make pictures to be cut up on the screen. You will need at least 3 of each section of the animal.

Some important points for working in paint:

• Save all of the pictures to the folder.
• Make the pictures all the same width.
• Make the heads the same size where the pictures meet.
• Make all of the eyes the exact same size. Make all of the tops of heads the same size. Make all of the bottoms the same size.
• If you are behind schedule when you get to this section, do this VERY QUICKLY. Make the pictures different colours or something easy.

Some Examples:

2. Set up the user interface.

You will need panels as labelled below.

3. Make the three pieces of the picture global (I called mine head, eyes and mouth in the above picture). In actionPerformed, you will change them something like this:

 if (e.getActionCommand ().equals ("beak"))
    mouth.setIcon (createImageIcon ("beak.gif"));