High-Low Game

[TANKDS]

I am trying to create a game hopefully with a graphics interface. The game will be like the high-low card game with a graphics interface where a card is shown and the user has to select either higher or lower, and if they are wrong the game ends and gives the options to either exit or start a new game.

What I aim to do:

\\Create a graphics interface
\\Create basic code
\\Create user-input prior to graphics interface

I want to start off by creating a simple program that I can run in command prompt and I will be able to input either high or low and other basic functionality's will also work. What I am trying to find out is how I can either give the user options to choose or ask the user a question and when an answer is in-putted it responds appropriately doing what is asked or by asking for another input. Could anyone help enlighten me with how I can allow a user input?

[JosAH]

Have you read about the Scanner class?

kind regards,

Jos

[TANKDS]

Have you read about the Scanner class?

kind regards,

Jos

No, I will have a look at this when I get chance, thanks. :)

[JosAH]

No, I will have a look at this when I get chance, thanks. :)

You should read Sun's/Oracle's tutorials more (and the API documentation); I bet the tutorials at least mention the Scanner class.

kind regards,

Jos

[TANKDS]

I have had a look at the Scanner class but I am not fully understand in what way I am suppose to use it, I am relatively new to java and the large amount of code that they use in the really big index to give examples with I am not able to fully understand and learn to use in creating what I am trying to make.

[kjkrum]

From the Really Big Index: Scanning (The Java™ Tutorials > Essential Classes > Basic I/O)

If you consider this a "large amount of code", then I'm sorry... programming is not for you.

[TANKDS]

You forget I am a beginner and that amount of code easily confuses as I am not used to having so many unknowns shown to me at once.

[kjkrum]

Then start with the "Hello World" example and work through each example in order so there is only one new concept at a time.

[TANKDS]

Then start with the "Hello World" example and work through each example in order so there is only one new concept at a time.

This is what I am doing, I didn't come to these forums to be told all the time I should learn really big index, I came here to get help with the things that I am currently working on.

[awinston]

This is what I am doing, I didn't come to these forums to be told all the time I should learn really big index, I came here to get help with the things that I am currently working on.

But when you need help with the basics, it's only logical that we point you to the Java Tutorials. There's no point in somebody wasting his own time creating a tutorial specifically for your issue when a general tutorial that has already been made will do just as well.

[kjkrum]

You've asked two kinds of questions here: very simple beginner questions that you don't even understand the answer to when people like Norm try to talk you through it; and very advanced, broad, and vague questions like this one. If you refuse to take things step by step between whatever you do understand and the things you're asking about, then basically you're just asking people to write your program for you. And nobody wants to do that.

[TANKDS]

If I am to learn the scanner class is it absolutely necessary for me to learn every page prior to it in the RBI?

[JosAH]

If I am to learn the scanner class is it absolutely necessary for me to learn every page prior to it in the RBI?

Not really, because the RBI mentions all tutorials (that's why it's really big). There is a paragraph about basic IO where the Scanner class is mentioned; that'd be a good starting point. If that paragraph mentions stuff you have never heard about or you don't understand, look in the RBI again.

kind regards,

Jos

[TANKDS]

Thanks, I will take a look at that when I get chance.

[TANKDS]

I have been looking over the scanner class repeatedly and I am seeing a way for it to print an output of a file with a specified separator but I am not understanding how to use it to help with user input. Am I missing something really obvious?

[quad64bit]

Yeah,

//...
Scanner userInput = new Scanner(System.in);
int num = userInput.nextInt();
//...

[kjkrum]

The Scanner class doesn't have the ability to print anything. Are you trolling us?

[TANKDS]

The Scanner class doesn't have the ability to print anything. Are you trolling us?

In the tutorial is talks about printing words on new lines and stuff like that?

[Tolls]

That's what the program does that is using Scanner.
The Scanner doesn't print the words on different lines, it simply reads each token (word) from the file.

[TANKDS]

That's what the program does that is using Scanner.
The Scanner doesn't print the words on different lines, it simply reads each token (word) from the file.

Oh, sorry to confuse you lol