tictactoe game in java and other stuff

["Jonathan Smith" <jon_1_5@hotmail.com>]

I'm here, begging for knowledge again. I have a couple of questions to ask 
and I hope for some help:

1. I'm in the process of creating a java tictactoe game. It's fairly easy 
enough, but there's only one problem. Now don't laugh, I've never been 
taught this kind of stuff, so be patient please. I want to have four files. 
One, as a starting menu asking one or two players, one that defines basic 
tictactoe behavior, and two more that inherit from the the one I just 
mentioned; one inherits for a one player mode, and the other for a two 
player mode. My problem is connectin the menu with the different modes. I 
know how to control button action, I just don't know how to refer to a 
certain class, or call it or something. If you need any more information on 
what I'm trying to do, just email me.

2. I was testing classes in the form of applets and applications. I was 
successful in everything except displaying graphics. I made an init() method 
that simply stated   setBackground(Color.red), but when I ran the java 
interpreter on the application file, it just ran with the same black 
background. The same thing goes for the paint() method, I can't get anything 
paint()ed.  I need some help in more ways than one...J.K.

3. When I create a panel for an applet, not the applet panel itself, I can't 
paint() on it either. I made a card layout and put two panels init() (in 
it), and I couldn't draw on either one. It's easy to draw to the applet, 
just draw using a graphics object, but when I try to draw on  a panel that I 
create, it doesn't work.

Those are all for now. All help is appreciated. Thanks,

p.s. does anyone think I have a weird sense of humor?




                                      Peace and may God
                                       direct your life
                                        Amen, Jonathan Smith

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