Back to the Hangman Ideal...

[nomad]

I need some practice and so I decide to take on this project.
Trying to figure out if I could use several Class for this project.
1. one for the images of the hangman when they guess wrong it draw a image
2. one for the input info. ie user tries to guess the letters for the word This one is all most done. This is done with JFrame,
3. one for the words that will be stored in a arraylist or an array and it will choose the word ramdomly.
any Ideal would be great.

nomad

[nomad]

I need some practice and so I decide to take on this project.
Trying to figure out if I could use several Class for this project.
1. one for the images of the hangman when they guess wrong it draw a image
2. one for the input info. ie user tries to guess the letters for the word This one is all most done. This is done with JFrame,
3. one for the words that will be stored in a arraylist or an array and it will choose the word ramdomly. [size=2][/size]
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[/size]any Ideal would be great.

nomad

3. one for the words that will be stored in a arraylist or an array and it will choose the word ramdomly. I have this done, used array and with ramdon and Math.abs

[DeMan]

You might also consider having a seperate "Driver" class....or is that the role of (2) ?

[nomad]

You might also consider having a seperate "Driver" class....or is that the role of (2) ?

OK what is a Driver class. Is that the main?
If so I think role 2 would be the best place to run the application.

nomad

[JosAH]

And don't forget those nifty regular expressions that can be used for checking
which letters are (in) correct.

kind regards,

Jos

[nomad]

And don't forget those nifty regular expressions that can be used for checking
which letters are (in) correct.

kind regards,

Jos

That the next step, I need to figure out.

nomad

[nomad]

I need some practice and so I decide to take on this project.
Trying to figure out if I could use several Class for this project.
1. one for the images of the hangman when they guess wrong it draw a image
2. one for the input info. ie user tries to guess the letters for the word This one is all most done. This is done with JFrame,
3. one for the words that will be stored in a arraylist or an array and it will choose the word ramdomly.
any Ideal would be great.

nomad

I'm currently working on the hangman itself.
I don't know if I could draw it or have images which are already created.
I think drawing the hangman would be easier to do, but I would like to do the images instead.
If I use the images and this is where I'm stuck. Should I use ImageIcon for them?
Please help...

[DeMan]

YOu could draw them as needed, or create seperate components which appear as needed, although perhaps the easiest approach (I think) is to make a series of gallows in different stages of construction -> Then you can change the picture (kind of like a flip book) to give the impression of the gallows being constructed

[nomad]

I need some practice and so I decide to take on this project.
Trying to figure out if I could use several Class for this project.
1. one for the images of the hangman when they guess wrong it draw a image
2. one for the input info. ie user tries to guess the letters for the word This one is all most done. This is done with JFrame,
3. one for the words that will be stored in a arraylist or an array and it will choose the word ramdomly.
any Ideal would be great.

nomad

I have the ramdom words Class done. Now I'm trying to figure out how to compare the input to the ramdom word.
[size=2]This is what I have so far...[/size]
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 class PersonClass { 

static Scanner kbd;



public static void main(String[] args) {

{

kbd = new Scanner(System.in);

String text[];

text = new String[12];

int number = 0;



text[number++] = "MONDAY";

text[number++] = "PROGRAMING";

text[number++] = "GOOD DAY";

text[number++] = "ASSIGNMENT";

text[number++] = "FOR SCORE";

text[number++] = "PERSONAL";

text[number++] = "WORK IS NOT FUN";

text[number++] = "GOOD BYE";

text[number++] = "DICIONARY";

text[number++] = "I LOVE ITALY";

text[number++] = "BIKE RIDING";

text[number++] = "GOOD GRIEF";



 

/* Create random number generator. */

Random random = new Random();



 

/* Choose an integer between 0 and the size of the array; effectively

chooses the index of one element of the array. */

int randomIndex = Math.abs(random.nextInt()%text.length);



/*Prints out the word*/

System.out.println(text[randomIndex]);

System.out.println("There are this many character for this word " + text[randomIndex].length());

/* guess the word */

String word = text[randomIndex];//place a string to hold word.

System.out.print(word);//testing ramdom word

System.out.print("enter a letter");

String inputWord = kbd.next();



if (inputWord == (text[randomIndex])){

System.out.println("you got one word");

}else{

/* Display the randomly-chosen word. */

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "The random word was " +

text[randomIndex]);

}

//Do you want to play another game

//System.out.println("Do you want to play another game? Y or N ");

}

}

}

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[size=2]Not to sure if I need to place the ramdom word in a string or not. I base this ideal that Jos gave back on the org. hangman ideal.[/size]

String secret= "apple"; // the secret word
String correctChars= "p"; // previously correctly guessed chars
String guess= "e"; // the new guess
String newSecret= secret.replaceAll("[^"+correctChars+guess+"]", "-");

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The value of newSecret will be equal to "a--l-"; if you want to make sure that
the remaining new 'secret' doesn't contain any hidden letters do this:

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boolean win(String secret, String correctChars) {
   String temp= secrect.replaceAll("[^"+correctChars+"]", "-");
   return temp.indexOf('-') < 0;
}

Any ideals and help would be great.

nomad

[JosAH]

May I suggest that you don't use those ugly arrays? You wrote an entire article
yourself on Lists (ArrayLists in particular). Why not use those? And why not
initialize them using a, say, .properties file? You can even add clues to the
words to be guessed. Suppose you have a .properties file like this:

dog             = an easy word: woof!
defenestration  = nobody knows this word
...

A Properties object is a HashTable which implements the Map interface. You
can get the keySet() (the words to the left of the equal sign) and you can build
a List out of that. You can pick a random element out of that List and optionally
get the clue message given that key from the Properties object. Much more fun
than just thost stupid arrays.

kind regards,

Jos

[nomad]

May I suggest that you don't use those ugly arrays? You wrote an entire article
yourself on Lists (ArrayLists in particular). Why not use those? And why not
initialize them using a, say, .properties file? You can even add clues to the
words to be guessed. Suppose you have a .properties file like this:

dog = an easy word: woof!
defenestration = nobody knows this word
...

A Properties object is a HashTable which implements the Map interface. You
can get the keySet() (the words to the left of the equal sign) and you can build
a List out of that. You can pick a random element out of that List and optionally
get the clue message given that key from the Properties object. Much more fun
than just thost stupid arrays.

kind regards,

Jos

array was easier to figure out..
I guess I can rework it.

nomad

[DeMan]

Might be an idea to do that eventually. If you take up JosAH's suggestion of using a clue, you may like to define an object that holds all this information together......

The rework should be reasonable simple. At this stage you need the Add(), Get() and possible size() methods (which add an element, retrieve an element and return the size of an element respectively).