Adding a cycle numbre to the name of an object

Question

I have this code in Java

for (int j = 0; j < 8; j++) 
        {
            Boton[1][j].setIcon(PeonN);
            Peon PeonNegro = new Peon('N');
            Boton[6][j].setIcon(PeonB);
        }

This is for a Chess, I want each new object to have the number of the loop do use it independently without creating an array, to have something like

for (int j = 0; j < 8; j++) 
            {
                Boton[1][j].setIcon(PeonN);
                Peon PeonNegro+i = new Peon('N');
                Boton[6][j].setIcon(PeonB);
            }

So I'll have PeonNegro0, PeonNegro1 and so on...

Answer 1

You aren't going to be able to do this without an array or Collection. (In Java, it would be quite difficult to use a dynamic variable name). You'll have to declare something like an array or ArrayList outside of your for loop, as shown below.

Peon[] peons = new Peon[8];
for (int j = 0; j < 8; j++) 
{
    Boton[1][j].setIcon(PeonN);
    peons[j] = new Peon('N');
    Boton[6][j].setIcon(PeonB);
}

// So we can access a single peon like this
Peon p3 = peons[3];

// Or iterate over all peons and get the cycle number like this
for (int cycle_num = 0; cycle_num < 8; cycle_num++) {
    Peon peon = peons[cycle_num];

    // Do something with peon and cycle_num here

}