[DraDallas2009]

I am trying to create a Snake game. I was wanting to know how to make the snake "grow" Here is what i have from the snake...is there a way i can use this to make the extensions of the snake?

public KeyboardPanel()
	{
	addKeyListener(new KeyAdapter()
	  {
		  public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e)
		  {
			  switch(e.getKeyCode())
			  {
				  case KeyEvent.VK_DOWN:
					   arrowNum = 1;			// Creates a variable that creates the continuous foward
					   snakeY+= 1; 
					   break;
				  case KeyEvent.VK_UP:  
					  arrowNum = 2;
					  snakeY-= 1; 
					  break;
				  case KeyEvent.VK_RIGHT:
					   arrowNum = 3;
					   snakeX += 1; 
					   break;
				  case KeyEvent.VK_LEFT: 
					  arrowNum = 4;
					  snakeX -= 1; 
					  break;
				  default: e.getKeyChar();
			  }
			  
			  repaint();
		  }
	  });
	}
	
		public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
   		{
   		
   			super.paintComponent(g);
   			g.setColor(Color.red);
   			g.fillRect(foodX, foodY, 9, 9);
   		
   			g.setColor(Color.green);
   			g.fillOval(snakeX, snakeY, 9, 9);
   			
   			g.setColor(Color.blue);
   			g.drawRect(10, 10, BARRIER_X, BARRIER_Y);
   		}	
	} 

also, to make the food pop up randomly after the first one has been set, how do i go about that? Here is my code for the random food so far. I would like to know where would this be set. Thanks

	private int foodPlaceX;
	private int foodPlaceY;
	Random foodPlace = new Random();
	foodPlaceX = foodPlace.nextInt(279);
	foodPlaceY = foodPlace.nextInt(389);

[DraDallas2009]

I am trying to create a Snake game. I was wanting to know how to make the snake "grow" Here is what i have from the snake...is there a way i can use this to make the extensions of the snake?

public KeyboardPanel()
	{
	addKeyListener(new KeyAdapter()
	  {
		  public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e)
		  {
			  switch(e.getKeyCode())
			  {
				  case KeyEvent.VK_DOWN:
					   arrowNum = 1;			// Creates a variable that creates the continuous foward
					   snakeY+= 1; 
					   break;
				  case KeyEvent.VK_UP:  
					  arrowNum = 2;
					  snakeY-= 1; 
					  break;
				  case KeyEvent.VK_RIGHT:
					   arrowNum = 3;
					   snakeX += 1; 
					   break;
				  case KeyEvent.VK_LEFT: 
					  arrowNum = 4;
					  snakeX -= 1; 
					  break;
				  default: e.getKeyChar();
			  }
			  
			  repaint();
		  }
	  });
	}
	
		public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
   		{
   		
   			super.paintComponent(g);
   			g.setColor(Color.red);
   			g.fillRect(foodX, foodY, 9, 9);
   		
   			g.setColor(Color.green);
   			g.fillOval(snakeX, snakeY, 9, 9);
   			
   			g.setColor(Color.blue);
   			g.drawRect(10, 10, BARRIER_X, BARRIER_Y);
   		}	
	} 

also, to make the food pop up randomly after the first one has been set, how do i go about that? Here is my code for the random food so far. I would like to know where would this be set. Thanks

	private int foodPlaceX;
	private int foodPlaceY;
	Random foodPlace = new Random();
	foodPlaceX = foodPlace.nextInt(279);
	foodPlaceY = foodPlace.nextInt(389);

[pbl]

Double topics merged

My suggestion:
Forget your paint method
Make your panel a GridLayout of 500X400 or whatever you want
fill it with an array of JLabel[500][400]
makes all these JLabel setOpaque(true)

to move the snake:
- change the color of the JLabel ahead (can be North, East, West, South) of the head
- change the color of the JLabel pointed by the tail

You can keep in an array of JLabel (or even better an ArrayList) the list of all the squares where the snake is
With an ArrayList you can insert at the head and delete the last one