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The next refinement is simple. I want the output box to change colour, when the output of the calculation contains the word ‘Error’. How I have decided to handle this is by creating a new String before sending setting it as the content of the JTextField element. I have also decided to add a few … Read more

The first refinement i wish to make is to make the inputs for Day and Month to be ComboBoxes. In order to do this I first need to create two arrays containing all the values for the days(0 – 31) and months(“—” to “December”). The arrays will both store these values as strings and then … Read more

The Final step is to create the GUI, I have sketched out my plan by hand. My initial plan is on the left, I plan to have 3 text input boxes, a large calculate button and an output box. The window will not be too big and I will fix the width and height, so … Read more

With the updated Python function, comes an updated Java function, the code now looks like this, similar to the Python function there are two new checks and a final check that daysInMonth is not still zero: With this function working correctly, I can now continue with developing the GUI.

I have just realised a mistake in my validDate Function. The mistake is that it only validates the day and not the month or year, i also realised that it would validate the day even if the day is zero so I need to fix this. It was only when I was creating the Java … Read more

The next evolution of this project is to eventually create a graphical user interface(GUI). This is possible to do using Python. But, I want to use Java for this job so recreating the work I have already done in Java is the way to go. So what’s first. The first thing is to write the … Read more

Another good function which would come in handy for Zeller is a function to make sure the date which was inputted is valid and display a message if the program has encountered an invalid date. For this function I will be using my inArray function which I wrote in a previous post. I will utilise … Read more

Something I am constantly wanting to do in a lot of programs is see if a value is in an array. For another function which I wish to write to add to the Zeller program this will come in handy. The basic algorithm looks like this: SET value TO RequiredValueSET array TO ArrayToSearchSET isIn TO … Read more