Styjun

I don't expect anyone to do the work for me, but I'm having trouble finding the exact answers to my questions researching on my own. I'm trying to have a text field where the user must input an integer between 1 and 3 and then a drop down menu to pick a flavor (would like the drop down selection to either work as the way to submit or just get the menu itself to stay selected). After submission I want a window to pop up with a painted ice cream cone that changes color based on the flavor and the number of scoops to also be accurate to the user's input.

I have been trying to work with JOptionPanel as I thought maybe that in combination with some sort of ActionListener set up would do the trick for me, but I can't seem to find the how-to or advice I need to get the job done that way.

public void createGUI()

 setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

 Container window = getContentPane();
 window.setLayout(new BorderLayout());

 GridLayout mainLayout = new GridLayout(2,1);
 GridLayout topLayout = new GridLayout(1,2);
 GridLayout menuLayout = new GridLayout(6,2);

 JLabel storeFront = new JLabel("Ice Cream Shop");
 JLabel orderHere = new JLabel("Order Here");

 ImageIcon storeImage = new ImageIcon("storefront.jpeg");
 JLabel store = new JLabel(storeImage);

 ImageIcon flavorsImage = new ImageIcon("flavors.jpeg");
 JLabel flavors = new JLabel(flavorsImage);

 JTextField numberScoops = new JTextField(5);


 JMenuBar flavorMenu = new JMenuBar();
 JMenu flavorIceCream = new JMenu();

 JMenuItem chocolate = new JMenuItem("Chocolate");
 JMenuItem vanilla = new JMenuItem("Vanilla");
 JMenuItem strawberry = new JMenuItem("Strawberry");
 flavorIceCream.add(chocolate);
 flavorIceCream.add(vanilla);
 flavorIceCream.add(strawberry);

 flavorMenu.add(flavorIceCream);

 JPanel iceCreamShop = new JPanel();
 iceCreamShop.setBackground(Color.gray);
 iceCreamShop.add(store, BorderLayout.CENTER);

 JPanel iceCreamMenu = new JPanel();
 iceCreamMenu.setBackground(Color.gray);
 JPanel menuPanel = new JPanel();
 menuPanel.setBackground(Color.gray);
 menuPanel.setLayout(menuLayout);

 menuPanel.add(new JLabel("Chocolate"));
 menuPanel.add(new JLabel("$2.00/scoop"));
 menuPanel.add(new JLabel("Vanilla"));
 menuPanel.add(new JLabel("$2.00/scoop"));
 menuPanel.add(new JLabel("Strawberry"));
 menuPanel.add(new JLabel("$2.25/scoop"));
 menuPanel.add(new JLabel("How Many Scoops?"));
 menuPanel.add(numberScoops);
 menuPanel.add(new JLabel("what flavor?"));
 menuPanel.add(flavorMenu);
 menuPanel.add(new JButton("clear"));
 menuPanel.add(new JButton("submit"));
 iceCreamMenu.add(menuPanel);

 JPanel iceCreamOrder = new JPanel();
 iceCreamOrder.setLayout(topLayout);
 iceCreamOrder.add(iceCreamShop);
 iceCreamOrder.add(iceCreamMenu);

 JPanel mainPanel = new JPanel();
 mainPanel.setLayout (mainLayout);
 mainPanel.setBackground(Color.gray);
 mainPanel.add(iceCreamOrder);
 mainPanel.add(flavors, BorderLayout.CENTER);

 window.add(mainPanel, BorderLayout.CENTER);