nightscene, Java applet - bluej Programming

This applet draws a series of stars, random in color and size (1 to 6 pixesl about), all over the screen. It then draws the moon in a random place, and the horizon. Since the paint method is automatically called whenever an applet needs to redraw itself, I moved the window around a little bit to show the effect.

A fun project might be to move the moon around the screen (as if rising or going behind the horizon) while the stars are continuously changing.

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Education

Tags:

• java
• night
• scene
• programming
• bluej
• practice
• computer
• science
• CS1

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y = this.getHeight() - 50;

g.setColor(Color.BLUE);

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for(x = 0; x < this.getWidth(); x++)

{

g.setColor(Color.BLUE)

g.fillRect(x,y,1,1);

g.setColor(Color.BLACK);

g.fillRect(x, y+1, 1, this.getHeight());

y += rand.nextInt(5) - 2

}

[bingin15]

hi, i'm trying to code the horizon using the random object. but i can't get it to work. it only gives me a bunch of scattered lines within a certain range.

[successfulbuild]

@bingin15 post the variable initializations and then the for loop, at the end of the code, and let me know if it works.

[bingin15]

@successfulbuild hi, i should have posted this a while ago, but i received the answer i needed from someone in my class. i needed to just add whatever the random number was to the y value each time.