hashmap or search problem

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hi

ive been stuck on my project for a while.. when i search the hashmap which contains words read in from a dict i never find anything it goes to the else in the if(map.containsKey(ss)){ test which means not found i eclipse is promping for a local var for wordmap which is why i suspect i should merge the classes. I think my design may be flawed? maybe i should merge the solver and dict classes? or maybe its the hashmap which is at fault? please any comments/suggestions are welcome...

thanks
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import java.util.Map;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.ArrayAdapter;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.EditText;
import android.widget.ListView;
import android.widget.Toast;

public class CrosswordSolver extends Activity {

	private ListView foundWords = null;
	private ArrayAdapter<String> adapter;
	private EditText editText;
	private Button btnQuit = null;
	private Button btnSearch = null;
	
	Dictionary dictionary = new Dictionary();
	
	@Override
	public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
		super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
		setContentView(R.layout.main);
		init();
	}

	private void init(){

		foundWords = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.listMatches);
		adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, android.R.layout.simple_spinner_dropdown_item);
		foundWords.setAdapter(adapter);
		editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.txtSearch);
		btnQuit = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnQuit);
		btnSearch = (Button) findViewById(R.id.btnSearch);



		btnQuit.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
			public void onClick(View v) {
				Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "You clicked the Quit button. Bye!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
				finish();
			}
		});

		btnSearch.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener(){
			public void onClick(View v) {
				//Dictionary dictionary = new Dictionary(); //Instantiate the dictionary
			
				try {
					dictionary.load();
				} catch (Exception e) {
					// TODO Auto-generated catch block
					e.printStackTrace();
				}
			 //Load the dictionary into memory
				
				//Intent i = new Intent(CrosswordSolver.this, Dictionary.class);
				String searchTerm = editText.getText().toString();
				Map<KeySearch, Word> map = dictionary.getWordMap(); //Get a hash map of the words
				KeySearch ss = new KeySearch(searchTerm); //Wrap the search term in our custom object
				if (map.containsKey(ss)){ //Check if key exists in hash table. This is an O(1) operation
					Word word = wordMap.get(word.hashCode()).add(next); //Get the values associated with the key in the hash table.
					 wordMap.get(word.hashCode()).add(next);
					Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), "You found key!", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();//foundWords=( word.getWord()); //Print result
				}
				else{//Word is not in the hash table
					Toast.makeText(getBaseContext(), (searchTerm + " is not in the dictionary"),Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show(); 
				}
				finish();
			}
		});

	}
}

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

/* The Dictionary class has been altered to provide a choice of two data structures to use
 * for a word search - an array list and a hash table.
 */
public class Dictionary {
	private Map<KeySearch, Word> wordMap = new HashMap<KeySearch, Word>(); //Instance variable of type Map 
	private List<Word> wordList = new ArrayList<Word>();
	private final String DICTIONARY_FILE = "dictionary.png"; //A string instance variable

	public void load() throws Exception{ //If anything goes wrong, throw the exception to the calling method. Very lazy indeed!
		try {
			FileInputStream txtInput = new FileInputStream(DICTIONARY_FILE); //Wrap the file name in an input stream
			DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(txtInput); //Allows us to read primitive data types (ints, chars, floats) from a stream
			BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(txtInput, "UTF8")); //Buffers the data input stream

			String next;
			while ((next = br.readLine()) != null) { //Loop through each line in the dictionary file
				Word word = new Word(next); //Create a new Word object using the next word in the dictionary
				wordMap.put(new KeySearch(next), word); //Also add the word to the hash map
			}
			in.close(); //Good manners to close any in/out streams.
		} catch (Exception e) {
			throw new Exception("[ERROR] Encountered a problem reading the dictionary. " + e.getMessage());		
		}
	}

	public List<Word> words(){
		return this.wordList;
	}
	
	public int size(){
		return wordList.size();
	}
	
	public Word[] getSortedWords(){
		return (Word[]) wordList.toArray(new Word[wordList.size()]);
	}
	
	public Map<KeySearch, Word> getWordMap(){
		return wordMap;
	}
}

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

/* The Dictionary class has been altered to provide a choice of two data structures to use
 * for a word search - an array list and a hash table.
 */
public class Dictionary {
	private Map<KeySearch, Word> wordMap = new HashMap<KeySearch, Word>(); //Instance variable of type Map 
	private List<Word> wordList = new ArrayList<Word>();
	private final String DICTIONARY_FILE = "dictionary.png"; //A string instance variable

	public void load() throws Exception{ //If anything goes wrong, throw the exception to the calling method. Very lazy indeed!
		try {
			FileInputStream txtInput = new FileInputStream(DICTIONARY_FILE); //Wrap the file name in an input stream
			DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(txtInput); //Allows us to read primitive data types (ints, chars, floats) from a stream
			BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(txtInput, "UTF8")); //Buffers the data input stream

			String next;
			while ((next = br.readLine()) != null) { //Loop through each line in the dictionary file
				Word word = new Word(next); //Create a new Word object using the next word in the dictionary
				wordMap.put(new KeySearch(next), word); //Also add the word to the hash map
			}
			in.close(); //Good manners to close any in/out streams.
		} catch (Exception e) {
			throw new Exception("[ERROR] Encountered a problem reading the dictionary. " + e.getMessage());		
		}
	}

	public List<Word> words(){
		return this.wordList;
	}
	
	public int size(){
		return wordList.size();
	}
	
	public Word[] getSortedWords(){
		return (Word[]) wordList.toArray(new Word[wordList.size()]);
	}
	
	public Map<KeySearch, Word> getWordMap(){
		return wordMap;
	}
}

public class Word {
	private String word;

	public Word(String word) {
		this.word = word;
	}

	public String getWord() {
		return word;
	}

	public void setWord(String word) {
		this.word = word;
	}
}