Help with horizontal output

[IdrinkJava]

im attempting to make a yhatzee style dice game in netbeans. I want my output to be displayed horizontally instead of vertically, I've searched around the forms but this seems to be more complex than most horizontal outputs due to the multiple strings that im trying to print.

My code is as follows:

for(int x=0;x<5;x++)
{
int i = rndm.nextInt(6);

switch (i)
{
case 0:
card = "- - - - -\n- -\n- * -\n- -\n- - - - -";
System.out.println(card);
break;

case 1:
card = "- - - - -\n- * -\n- -\n- * -\n- - - - -";
System.out.println(card);
break;

case 2:
card = "- - - - -\n- * -\n- * -\n- * -\n- - - - -";
System.out.println(card);
break;

case 3:
card = "- - - - -\n- * * -\n- -\n- * * -\n- - - - -";
System.out.println(card);
break;

case 4:
card = "- - - - -\n- * * -\n- * -\n- * * -\n- - - - -";
System.out.println(card);
break;

case 5:
card = "- - - - -\n- * * -\n- * * -\n- * * -\n- - - - -";
System.out.println(card);
break;




}

}
}
}

and my output appears as:

[sunde887]

Using System.out.print instead of System.out.println should work.

[IdrinkJava]

print still prints it out vertically

[KevinWorkman]

There is no "easy" way to simply rotate the console output.

You're going to have to write the code that prints it out how you want it to look, line by line. How you do that is really up to you.

[JosAH]

If you want to print the character images of four dice on the console you have to print the first line of them, next the second line of them etc. until the last line of those dice. That leads to the following loop structure:

for (line = 0; line < MAX_LINES; line++) { // print lines of all dice
   for (int die= 0; die < 4; die++) // print a line of a die
      // print 'line' of die 'die'
   System.out.println(); // this line is done
}

You decide how you want to print individual lines of individual dice.

kind regards,

Jos

[gcalvin]

Start with this:

    private static final String[][] diceStrings = { { "- - - - -",
                                                       "-       -",
                                                       "-   *   -",
                                                       "-       -",
                                                       "- - - - -" },
                                                     { "- - - - -",
                                                       "- *     -",
                                                       "-       -",
                                                       "-     * -",
                                                       "- - - - -" },
                                                     { "- - - - -",
                                                       "- *     -",
                                                       "-   *   -",
                                                       "-     * -",
                                                       "- - - - -" },
                                                     { "- - - - -",
                                                       "- *   * -",
                                                       "-       -",
                                                       "- *   * -",
                                                       "- - - - -" },
                                                     { "- - - - -",
                                                       "- *   * -",
                                                       "-   *   -",
                                                       "- *   * -",
                                                       "- - - - -" },
                                                     { "- - - - -",
                                                       "- *   * -",
                                                       "- *   * -",
                                                       "- *   * -",
                                                       "- - - - -" } };

Then write a method:

    public void displayDice(int[] dice) {
        ...
    }

You should be able to figure out the rest with a simple nested loop.

-Gary-

[IdrinkJava]

thanks everyone for these great responses, i will get right on it