Problem attacking n buying in my little game

[nonybrighto]

please my big bros' here i want to develop a little game but i need a litttle help here.....this is the first time i'm trying to make a game
i made a method for attacking and a method for buying health and also getting more money while fighting so he can buy more health and still continue in the same fight but i'm having a problem when i put the
buystuffs() method for money and health in the attacking method... when i run the attacking() method in main and a user inputs 8,the buystuff() method runs but doesnt bring out an option for the user to select
his choice of what he wants to to ..then the application ends operation.

and i dont know if 1 can make it possible for the attacking to execute when enter key alone is typed instead of typing an integer

this is the code for attacking and buying stuffs below ....didnt include the get and set methods..but if need be, i will post it

//attacking
 public void attacking(int health,int attack,String oppname)
    {
       
        
        System.out.println("TYPE IN \"1\" TO ATTACK");
       
        while(input.hasNextInt() && alive)
        { //int myhealth=gethealth();
            
             int oppattack=1+rand.nextInt(attack);
        int myattack=1+rand.nextInt(getstrength());
            
            int ft=input.nextInt();
            //to go to the market
           
            
           System.out.println("attacked!!");
           System.out.println("YOUR LIFE IS = "+gethealth());
           System.out.println(oppname+"'S LIFE IS = "+health);
           
            if(ft==8)
            {
                buystuffs();
           
            }
           //myhealth=myhealth-oppattack;
           this.health=this.health-oppattack;
           health=health-myattack;
          
           
          if(gethealth()<1)
          {
           System.out.println("YOU ARE DEAD!!");   
          alive=false;
          }
           else if(health<1)
            {
                System.out.println("YOU KILLED "+oppname);
            }
              
        
        } 
    }

//buy stuffs.....

 public void buystuffs()
    {
        System.out.println("WELCOME TO THE GREAT MARKRT!!!  WHAT DO U WANT");
        System.out.printf("%s\n%s\n%s\n","M-GET MORE MONEY","S-STRENGTH","H-HEALTH");
        String choice= input.nextLine();
       
        switch(choice)
        {
            case "m":
            case "M":
                System.out.println("THE cashew MAKER WANT U TO GUESS HIS NUMBER(1-4) IF U FAIL,U LOOSE SOME cashew\nGUESS:");
                int makersnumber=1+rand.nextInt(4);
                int guess=input.nextInt();
                if(guess==makersnumber)
                {
                    System.out.print("YOU GUESSED RIGHT!!....your cashew increased from "+getcashew()+" to "+(getcashew()+10+makersnumber));
                    this.cashew=getcashew()+10+makersnumber;
                }
                else
                {
                  System.out.println("YOU FAILED :-(. his number is "+makersnumber+"!!...your cashew droped from "+getcashew()+" to "+(getcashew()-(1+makersnumber)));
                  this.cashew=getcashew()-(1+makersnumber);
                }
                break;
            case "s":
            case "S":
                na();
                break;
            case "h":
            case "H": 
                na();
                break;
        }
        
       
        
        
    }

[Fubarable]

My guess is that you're using a java.util.Scanner object that in your program is held by a variable called input. If so, one of the quirks of this object is that only the nextLine() method handles the end of line (EOL) token while other calls such as input.nextInt(), input.nextDouble(), input.next() don't handle this token, and this can cause problems if you call one of the non-EOL handling methods, and then call input.nextLine() with the goal of getting the actual next line.

A suggestion:

Any time you call input.nextInt(), follow this immediately with a call to input.nextLine() just to gobble up the EOL token. For example, I am suggesting that you change this:

int guess=input.nextInt();
if(guess==makersnumber)
{ 
  //.... etc...

to something like this:

int guess=input.nextInt();
input.nextLine(); // **** add this line!
if(guess==makersnumber)
{ 
  //.... etc...

[nonybrighto]

Thanks a lot a furable....u really helped me out here...i dont really understand the concept here but i tried the code you posted but it didnt work so i tried adding it before my switch statement because thats were it doesnt work from and it worked!!...

I did something like this

 String choice=input.nextLine();
choice=input.nextLine();  
switch(choice)

and it worked....thanks a lot to all and mostly to you furable!!...you are the best!!

[Fubarable]

You're welcome!

... but "furable"?

[nonybrighto]

Lol...sorry...fubarable