need some advice

[flagrl]

Im making the rock paper scissors program. it has to have different methods. haven't got that far but have a few questions. I am making a showoption dialog box and I have done that successfully. but for some reason my mind has went blank. what do I do after that? do I use the if else statments? I don't want the code wrote for me I just seem to be having a mind fart. what would I put into different methods? any advice would be wonderful because I am stuck

[sehudson]

I guess it depends. Are you trying to make a game where 1 person plays with the program?

[flagrl]

sorry should have been more specific. yes 1 person plays against the computer. the computer chooses first then the player choooses, w/o seeing the computer's choice

[sehudson]

Ok. As far as the implementation of the game, you could do it several ways. A dialog box is a good start. Maybe think about creating a custom dialog that has a JComboBox with 3 choices (rock,paper,scissors) and a Submit (whatever you want to call it, go, play, etc) button.

As far as making the computer selection, I would probably have a HashMap<Integer, String> that maps 1 to rock, 2 to paper, and 3 to scissors. Then you could have a Random Number Generator that is bound from 1-3, and based on the number returned, get the value that it corresponds to in your map. That would be a good way to get the computers selection randomly, even though with only 3 choices a RNG may be overkill, but I'm not sure if there are better ways.

That's a starting point. Then maybe come up with a way to map each item to the item that it beats. The rest of it is presentation for the most part.

[flagrl]

I made a dialog box that had 4 choices, rock, paper, scissors, and quit in a showoption dialog box, I think that's what its called, is that basically the same thing? I will work on your other suggestions and see what I come up with. thank you

[flagrl]

how would I assign a variable to the boxes on the JOptioinpane box. here is what I got so far its not much,
code:private static Component frame;
public static void main(String[] args) {

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Welcome to the game Rock, Paper, Scissors:");
        String rock;
        String paper;
        String scissors;
       String comp = "";   
  
 {
 Object[] Game = {"rock",
                    "paper",
                    "scissors", "quit"};
      JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(
              frame,
            "choose one option below: ",
            "Options ",
            JOptionPane.DEFAULT_OPTION,
            JOptionPane.QUESTION_MESSAGE,
            null,
            Game,
            Game[2]);

[subzero1012]

Could you please repost the entire formatted code? Thanks.

[flagrl]

thats it. i have nothing so far. i started with the JOptionpane dialog box because we hadnt gone over that kind so i would start with it first. so that is all i got. told you it isnt much :)