not a bad idea. I do plan on doing it all on my own time, and have already started on a small portion of it. If i do end up selling it to them I can always donate to contributors via paypal a certain percentage based on percentage of code contributed. But the project is already posted on Github and is open source.

One question that perplexes me is that I am using VS 2012 pro which i got from their MSDN subscription.... I know I could just as easily get the VS2012 express and do the same work there, but does me using this IDE still make it theirs?

CaseyJava, on 11 May 2013 - 10:54 PM, said:

In your code it showed that you were looking for .gif. that is one problem. The second is that java ImageIcon does not read in a .bmp. as the quote shows it only supports gif, jpeg and png

Quote

AH HA i think i found it

    @Override
    public void paint(Graphics g)
    {
        int cell = 0;
        int uncover = 0;
        all_cells = rows * cols;
        field = new int[all_cells];
        //img = new Image[NUM_IMAGES]; //this destroys what was just created

I now see a bunch of empty squares (i found 12 minesweeper gif's on the internet and made my own resources) also change this code to this

    public board(JLabel statusbar)
    {
        this.statusbar = statusbar;

        img = new Image[NUM_IMAGES];

        for (int i = 0; i < NUM_IMAGES; i++)
        {
            String name = String.format("%d.gif", i);
            URL url = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResource(name);
            if (url != null)
            {
                img[i] = new ImageIcon(url).getImage();
            }
        }

sometimes a fresh pair of eyes and a step away is all that is needed. Some of my best code fixes are after a trip to the John or to go talk with someone for a few minutes. In fact that was one of the tips I read in a book. If you are stuck with a seemingly easy problem that is just escaping you explain the problem out loud to a non-technical person. The reason is that it forces you to explain everything in crazy detail but it also forces you to think about every line of code. One person who didn't have access to another human being used a rubber duck... This makes me laugh but it really does work.

If I make another suggestion that will help you is to refactor your code. It is in desperate need of it.

public void Board(JLabel statusbar)

that is a method of yours to kick everything... but where is it being called?

Answer = no where. so how do you expect it to show anything?

I would say you need to fix this

    public Mines()
    {
        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        setSize(WIDTH, HEIGHT);
        setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        setTitle("Minesweeper");

        statusbar = new JLabel("");
        add(statusbar, BorderLayout.SOUTH);

        add(new board(statusbar));

        setResizable(false);
        setVisible(true);
    }

and this

    public board(JLabel statusbar)
    {
        this.statusbar = statusbar;

        img = new Image[NUM_IMAGES];

        for (int i = 0; i < NUM_IMAGES; i++)
        {
            img[i] =
                    (new ImageIcon(this.getClass().getResource((i)
                    + ".bmp"))).getImage();
        }

        setDoubleBuffered(true);

        addMouseListener(new minesadapter());
        newGame();
    }