I am well aware of the several other posts of similar nature. I’ve been trying to use them to help me, however either I am simply overlooking something or my code is missing something essential to properly work. I have a main JPanel that I am trying to have the image change every time a button is pressed (and I am starting to thing that my plan to change the layout when a different button is pressed will be a lot harder), but when it comes to the @Override section, I find that the icon cannot be changed, or when I try to implement something that I find from stackOverflow or from suggested in VSCode, it leads to lots of red lines.

What I am Wanting is to have an array of images available so that when the button is pressed, it runs through a random number generator and outputs a number that grabs a picture from the array at random. Fret not, I am well educated in the random number generation department, I hope.

and yes, I am aware this is a hot mess. I’ve tried several times over the past couple of weeks to figure this out (started with only a couple hours a day to stay sane, ending with non-stop 72 hours sessions, waking from sleep with different ideas to try)

Here are some sections of my code, I am including that which I think is necessary as I have written a lot and navigating is a nightmare.

`private JPanel topRow, leftPane, mainPane, bottomRow, mPane1;
private JButton btnOne, btnTen, btnHun, btnTho;
private JTextArea mPane2, test;
private String imagePath, name;
private ImageIcon image;

public  WSgui() {
super("Character Wish Simulator");
    this.setSize(900, 600);
    this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    this.setLayout(new BorderLayout());

this.mainPane = new JPanel();
    this.mainPane.setBackground(Color.ORANGE);
    this.mainPane.setMinimumSize(new Dimension(650, 400));
    this.mainPane.setBorder(new EmptyBorder(40,40,40,40));
    this.mainPane.setLayout(new BorderLayout());


//buttons
    this.btnOne = new JButton("x1 wish");
    this.btnOne.setSize(200, 100);
    
//setting panes for main
    this.mPane1 = new JPanel();
    int xSize = ((int) mainPane.getSize().getWidth());  
    int ySize = ((int) mainPane.getSize().getHeight());  
    int height = (int)(Math.round(ySize * 0.80));
    int width = (int)(Math.round(xSize * 0.80));
    this.mPane1.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(width, height));
    this.mPane1.setMinimumSize(new Dimension(xSize, ySize));
    this.mPane1.setMaximumSize(new Dimension(1000, 1000));

    this.mPane2 = new JTextArea();
    this.mPane2.setText("This should be below the picture");
    this.mPane2.setFont(new Font("Dialog", Font.PLAIN, 15));
    this.mPane2.setMaximumSize(new Dimension(width, 50));
    this.mPane2.setWrapStyleWord(true);
    this.mPane2.setLineWrap(true);
    this.mPane2.setEditable(false);



    this.btnTen = new JButton("x10 wish");
    this.btnTen.setSize(200, 50);
    this.btnTen.addActionListener(this);
//This idea (action listener) came from StackOverflow, but sadly is not working

    this.btnHun = new JButton("x100 wish");
    this.btnHun.setSize(200, 50);
    this.btnHun.addActionListener(this);

    this.btnTho = new JButton("x1000 wish");
    this.btnTho.setSize(200, 50);
    this.btnTho.addActionListener(this);

//Test image for Main Pane
    image = new ImageIcon(bnr);//some more ideas I found
    JLabel image5 = new JLabel(image);
    JLabel image2 = new JLabel(new ImageIcon(lpImage));
    JLabel image3 = new JLabel(new ImageIcon(mImage));
    JLabel image4 = new JLabel(new ImageIcon(xtra));
    this.mPane1.add(image3);
    this.leftPane.add(image2);
    this.topRow.add(image5);
    this.bottomRow.add(image4);

    this.mainPane.add(this.mPane1, BorderLayout.CENTER);
    this.mainPane.add(this.mPane2, BorderLayout.SOUTH);

    this.btnOne.addActionListener(e -> image5.setIcon(images[3]));

ImageIcon[] images = new ImageIcon[] {//my pathetic attempt at an array
    new ImageIcon("img/t1.png"), new ImageIcon("img/t2.png"), new ImageIcon("img/t3.jpg"),
    new ImageIcon("img/t4.jpg"), new ImageIcon("img/t5.png")
};

String[] image8 = new String[] {
    "img/t1.png"//idk how to explain this one
};







@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    
    if(e.getSource() == btnOne) {
        String image9 = image8[0];//and this is what I struggle with
        ImageIcon icon9 = new ImageIcon(image9);
        icon9.getImage().flush();
        image.setIcon(icon9);
        
    }
    }
    
  

If you need me, I may be occupied with this code. It’s been alone long enough. I must tend to it again.