What I'm trying to do is take 2 mouceclick input which gives me pixel coordinate x[0],y[0] and x[1],y[1]. Then I get a queue of array containing pixels coordinate of every pixel where the line joining these points would make. Don't need the line to be seen at all.
I decided to take the slope prospective such that 1 pixel change in x coordinate would change (x[1]-x[0])]/(y[1]-y[0]) in y coordinate. I keep getting arithmetic error.
Edit: Used the DDA algorithm and still getting / by zero error even if all values is pre-asigned to something non-zero.
Queue<int[]> queue=new LinkedList<int[]>();
int dx = Math.abs(x[1] - x[0]);
int dy = Math.abs(y[1] - y[0]);
int sx = (x[0] < x[1]) ? 1 : -1;
int sy = (y[0] < y[1]) ? 1 : -1;
int err = dx / dy;
int[] tog= {x[0],y[0]};
queue.add(tog); //1st pixel into queue. nothing else
while(true) {
if (x[0] == x[1] && y[0] == y[1]) {
break;
}
int e2 = 2 * err;
if (e2 > -dy) {
err = err - dy;
x[0] = x[0] + sx;
}
if (e2 < dx) {
err = err + dx;
y[0] = y[0] + sy;
}
tog[0]= x[0];
tog[1]= y[0];
queue.add(tog);
}
System.out.println(queue);
Thanks to the comment on using DDA, the problem I got is now fixed. I have used the following code for the counting of the pixels and storing their coordinates. I put this code inside the action listener for a mouse click.