Winning Loop Connect 4

I am writing a fully functional single player Connect 4 game. I am working on the second player and the while loop that tells the player who won.

GUI

package lab7; 

import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.JPanel;

public class GUIClass implements Runnable {

    @Override
    public void run() {

        JFrame f = new JFrame("CSE 115 Connect 4");
        f.setVisible(true);
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        GridLayout myGrid = new GridLayout(7, 6);
        JPanel panel;
        panel = new JPanel();
        panel.setLayout(myGrid);
        f.setLayout(myGrid);

        f.pack();

        ArrayList col_button = new ArrayList();
        for (Integer i = 1; i > col_list = new ArrayList>();
        for (int i = 0; i ());
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < 42; i++)
        {

            JLabel label = new JLabel(new ImageIcon("images/blank.png"));
            //System.out.println(label.getIcon().toString())
            col_list.get(i % 7).add(label);
            f.add(label);
        }
        GameClass gc = new GameClass(col_list);

        for (int i = 0; i < 7; i++)
        {
            col_button.get(i).addActionListener(new ColButton(col_list.get(i)));
        }

        f.pack();

    }

    ImageIcon whiteCircle = new ImageIcon("blank.png");
}

that contains all of the graphical interface behind my code, as you might have guessed I used Java and Eclipse.

This is my game class where my second player is going to be, and I also assume my winning loop will be here.

import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.util.ArrayList;

import javax.swing.JLabel;

public class GameClass{

    public GameClass(ArrayList> col_list)
    {

    }
}

finally this is my column class which contains the 1st player and all the buttons.

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package lab7;

import java.awt.even

Typically, a Swing application would be written using a Model-View-Controller pattern to split the responsibilities:

• The Model would be a data structure to represent the game state. It could, for example, consist of an ConnectFourBoard class that holds a two-dimensional array of chips in the board.

• The View would be the Swing UI code

• The Controller acts as the glue between the Model and View. It handles actions triggered by the View, and notifies the View when the Model has changed.

Here, I see View and Controller code, commingled. However, I don't see any Model code. In fact, in ColButton.actionPerformed(), it appears that the lack of a Model is causing you some difficulty: you're resorting to determining the model state by parsing the icon name out of the view.

Without a Model, you are no doubt going to have a difficult time examining the model state to determine the winner.

StackExchange Code Review Q#48896, answer score: 3