//Eric Bauer
//Homework #11 Exercise 6.24
//this is an applet that will prompt the user to enter three floating
//point numbers, and then tell the user in the statua bar which was
//the lowezt of the three
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.*;

public class Minimum3 extends JApplet implements ActionListener{

   JLabel numL1,numL2,numL3;
   JTextField num1,num2,num3;

   public void init()
   {
      Container c=getContentPane();
      c.setLayout(new FlowLayout());

      numL1=new JLabel("Enter a floating point number here:");
      c.add(numL1);

      num1=new JTextField(10);
      c.add(num1);

      numL2=new JLabel("Enter a floating point number here:");
      c.add(numL2);

      num2=new JTextField(10);
      c.add(num2);

      numL3=new JLabel("Enter a floating point number here:");
      c.add(numL3);

      num3=new JTextField(10);
      num3.addActionListener(this);
      c.add(num3);

   }//end method init

   public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
   {
      float nums1,nums2,nums3;
      float result;
      int x;

      showStatus("Calculating...");

      nums1=Float.parseFloat(num1.getText());
      nums2=Float.parseFloat(num2.getText());
      nums3=Float.parseFloat(num3.getText());

      result=minimum3(nums1,nums2,nums3);

      showStatus("The smallest value is "+ Float.toString(result));

   }//end actionPerformed

   public float minimum3 (float x, float y, float z)
   {
      return(Math.min(Math.min(x,y),z));
   }//end method minimum3

}//end class Minimum3