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[ooble]

really really new to java and im scratching my head where im going wrong and not getting this to work.
I have wrote an instance method that will perform an action if a previously declared variables value is true, if it is false it will not perform the action. Now i can only get it to perform the action if the variable is false and it does nothing when true.

   
public void cheer()
{
   if(!happy)
   {

      this.performAction("cheer");
   }

}

happy is the variable where the true or false value is stored.
Thanks for any pointers

[DarrylBurke]

Assignment, Arithmetic, and Unary Operators (The Java™ Tutorials > Learning the Java Language > Language Basics)

Look for the ! operator

db

[goldest]

Now i can only get it to perform the action if the variable is false and it does nothing when true.

   
public void cheer()
{
   if([COLOR="red"]![/COLOR]happy)
   {

      this.performAction("cheer");
   }

}

Do you know, what the red thing in if statement does?

Goldest

[ooble]

Yes it turns a true value to false and false to true which is why im getting nowhere with it.
Think i have it

if(happy && happy)

Seems to be doing what i need.

[Norm]

Have you tried it with only one happy variable? if (happy)

[goldest]

The easiest approach would be,

if (happy) {
	// Do happy things
} else {
	// Do sad things
}

Hope that makes some sense,

Goldest

[DarrylBurke]

Without code tags...

if (happy) {
___
} else {
___
}

db

[ooble]

Odd, i was sure i tried it with just one happy.
Thanks all