I'm trying to make a program that has the possibility to vote for different people. When a vote is added to a person, I want the pie chart above to change according to the votes. I have everything done except for the part of the pie chart changing. This is the code for the display portion of the program. Any advice is welcome, Thank!!

/**
 * A PollDisplayPanel holds the vote counts and
 * displays the numbers and the pie chart for
 * the current vote counts.
 */

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import javax.swing.JPanel;

public class PollDisplayPanel extends JPanel
{
  private String name1, name2, name3;
  // Declare the int fields count1, count2, count3:

  private int count1, count2, count3;

  // Constructor
  public PollDisplayPanel(String nm1, String nm2, String nm3)
  {
    setBackground(Color.WHITE);
    name1 = nm1;
    name2 = nm2;
    name3 = nm3;
    count1 = 0;   // optional
    count2 = 0;   // optional
    count3 = 0;   // optional
  }

  // Increments count1
  public void vote1()
  {
    count1++;
  }

  // Increments count2
  public void vote2()
  {
    count2++;
  }

  // Increments count3
  public void vote3()
  {
    count3++;
  }

  // Returns a string representation of this object
  public String toString()
  {
    return   name1 + ":" + count1 + " "  + name2 + ":" + count2 + " " + name3 + ":" + count3 + " " ;
  }

  // Redefines JPanel's paintComponent to draw this pie chart
  public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
  {
    super.paintComponent(g);

    int w = getWidth();
    int h = getHeight();
    int x = w/2;
    int y = h/2;
    int r = Math.min(w, h) / 4;
    drawPieChart(g, x, y, r);
    drawLegend(g, x, y, r);
  }

  // Draws the pie chart.
  // To avoid gaps in the picture, the following algorithm is used:
  // 1. set fromDegree to 0;
  // 2. draw the red sector and increment fromDegree by its size
  // 3. draw the green sector and increment fromDegree by its size
  // 4. set the size of the blue sector to the remaining
  //    area, 360 - fromDegree, but not less than 0:
  //      degrees = Math.max(360 - fromDegree, 0);
  //    (Occasionally, due to rounding errors, fromDegree may become 361,
  //    for example, count1 = 5, count2 = 11, count3 = 0.)
  private void drawPieChart(Graphics g, int x, int y, int r)
  {
    int total = count1 + count2 + count3;
    int fromDegree = 0;

    if (total > 0)
    {
      int degrees;
      g.setColor(Color.RED);
      degrees = countToDegrees(count1, total);
      drawSector(g, x, y, r, fromDegree, degrees);
      fromDegree += degrees;

      g.setColor(Color.GREEN);
      degrees = countToDegrees(count2, total);
      drawSector(g, x, y, r, fromDegree, degrees);
      fromDegree += degrees;

      g.setColor(Color.BLUE);
      degrees = Math.max(360 - fromDegree, 0);
      drawSector(g, x, y, r, fromDegree, degrees);
    }
    else
    {
      g.setColor(Color.LIGHT_GRAY);
      drawSector(g, x, y, r, fromDegree, 360);
    }
  }

  // Draws the vote counts and the corresponding color squares.
  private void drawLegend(Graphics g, int x, int y, int r)
  {
    // Display the counts:
    y += (r + 20);
    g.setColor(Color.BLACK);

    g.drawString("" + count1, x - r, y);

    g.drawString("" + count2, x, y);

    g.drawString("" + count3, x + r, y);


    // Display the color squares:
    y += 5;
    x -= 2;
    g.setColor(Color.RED);
    g.fillRect(x - r, y, 10, 10);
    g.setColor(Color.GREEN);
    g.fillRect(x, y, 10, 10);
    g.setColor(Color.BLUE);
    g.fillRect(x + r, y, 10, 10);
  }

  // Returns the number of degrees in a pie slice that
  // corresponds to count / total, rounded to the nearest integer.
  private int countToDegrees(int count, int total)
  {
    return (int)(360.0 + count / total + 0.5);
  }


  // Draws a sector, centered at x, y, of radius r,
  // of angle measure degrees, starting at fromDegree.
  private void drawSector(Graphics g, int x, int y, int r, int fromDegree, int degrees)
  {
    if (degrees > 359)
      g.fillOval(x - r, y - r, 2 * r, 2 * r);
    else
      g.fillArc(x - r, y - r, 2 * r, 2 * r, fromDegree, degrees);
  }
}

Whenever you update the vote data, call repaint(); on your PollDisplayPanel. This will result in Swing calling your paintComponent, where you will re-draw the pie chart using the latest values.

I update the vote data in another file and I call repaint(). That code looks like this

/*
 * Implements the control panel for the Poll program
 */

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class PollControlPanel extends JPanel
                          implements ActionListener
{
  private JButton button1, button2, button3;
  private PollDisplayPanel chartPanel;

  public PollControlPanel(PollDisplayPanel chart)
  {
    chartPanel = chart;

    button1 = new JButton("Tami");
    button1.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(80, 30));
    button1.setToolTipText("Vote for Tami");
    button1.addActionListener(this);

    button2 = new JButton("Brian");
    button2.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(80, 30));
    button2.setToolTipText("Vote for Brian");
    button2.addActionListener(this);

    button3 = new JButton("Liz");
    button3.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(80, 30));
    button3.setToolTipText("Vote for Liz");
    button3.addActionListener(this);

    add(button1);
    add(button2);
    add(button3);
  }

  /**
   *  Processes button events
   */
  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
  {
    JButton button = (JButton)e.getSource();

    if (button == button1)
      chartPanel.vote1();
    else if (button == button2)
      chartPanel.vote2();
    else if (button == button3)
      chartPanel.vote3();
    chartPanel.repaint();
  }

}

Thanks...this helped me out, but I found your mistake

private int countToDegrees(int count, int total)
  {
    return (int)((double)count / total * 360.0 + 0.5);
  }

this method is taking two int parameters, so you need to cast one as a double, otherwise count/total will always equal 0.

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