GUI problems in Java. Pls help. Thanks

[saytri]

I have made this piece of code where the output should display a dialogue box asking for a password. Then if the user enters it correctly it displays "Valid" or else it displays "Not Valid". However its only dispalying the dialogue box to enter the password. It isn't displaying whether its valid or not. What have i made wrong? Thanks a lot.

PS: I'm still a beginner in java

This is the piece of code i have written:


import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.Arrays;


public class GeographyQuiz_Menu
{


public static void main(String[] args)
{
JFrame jFrame;
jFrame = new JFrame();



JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(jFrame, "This is a Geography Quiz");
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Good Luck");


String yourChoice;
char choice;
int i, choice1;

int Password;
Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
JOptionPane.showInputDialog(jFrame, "Enter the Password");

Password = keyboard.nextInt();

if (Password == 123)
{
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Valid. You typed the right password. Now choose from the following menu");

}
else
{
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Invalid Password. Try Again.");

}
}
}

[bravephantom]

here is ur problem:
Password = keyboard.nextInt();
u better use the wrapper class Integer which has the function parseInt. Never use a scanner with dialog boxes, it wont work.
It takes a string and convert it into an integer for maths manipulations.
anyway try this and i hope its what u need.

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.*;


public class GeographyQuiz_Menu
{


public static void main(String[] args)
{
JFrame jFrame;
jFrame = new JFrame();



JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(jFrame, "This is a Geography Quiz");
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Good Luck");


String yourChoice;
char choice;
int i, choice1;

int Password;
String passString;
Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);

passString = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the Password");


//Password = passString.nextInt();
Password = Integer.parseInt(passString);


if (Password == 123)
{
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Valid. You typed the right password. Now choose from the following menu");

}
else
{
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Invalid Password. Try Again.");

}
}
}

[saytri]

Thanks a lot! You'r Great! :-)

[bravephantom]

Thanks a lot! You'r Great! :-)

ur welcome anytime ;)

[saytri]

I have another problem now. :-( i have to read a textfile from Java called platetectonics.txt I managed to call it from Java using the buffered reader, but i wish to display this textfile in a GUI format, when i call it from java. How can i do this? Thanks a lot. :-)

This is the code i've written:

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.*;

import java.io.*;
import java.util.Scanner;

import java.util.Arrays;

public class GeographyQuiz_Menu
{


public static void main(String[] args)
{
JFrame jFrame;
jFrame = new JFrame();



JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(jFrame, "This is a Geography Quiz");
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Good Luck");



char choice;
int i, choice1;
String yourChoice;
int Password;
String passString;



passString = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter the Password");


//Password = passString.nextInt();
Password = Integer.parseInt(passString);


if (Password == 123)
{
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Valid. You typed the right password. Now choose from the following menu");
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Welcome!\nThis is a Geography Quiz\nChoose from the following Menu:");


JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "1. Plate Tectonics\n2. Rivers\n3. Rocks\n4. Quit");

passString = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter your choice");
choice1 = Integer.parseInt(passString);

// Convert variable from string to integer
if(choice1<1 || choice1>4)
{
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "This is an invalid choice");
}

switch(choice1)
{
case 1: JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"You are taking the Plate Tectonics Quiz");
Scanner s = null;
try {
s = new Scanner(new BufferedReader(new FileReader("plate_tectonics.txt")));

while (s.hasNext()) {
s.useDelimiter(",\\s*");
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,s.next());
}
} finally {
if (s != null)
s.close();

break;

}
}

}

else
{
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Invalid Password. Try Again");
}

}
}

[bravephantom]

its already workin i donno what else u need. now u can show stuff in the file in the dialog box.
its only JOptionPane.showMessageDialog.... enough to do the job

u can also show each line in a new box by removing the useDelimiter() statement

[saytri]

its already workin i donno what else u need. now u can show stuff in the file in the dialog box.
its only JOptionPane.showMessageDialog.... enough to do the job

u can also show each line in a new box by removing the useDelimiter() statement

But the program is stopping when it shows a dialogue box saying that i have chosen the Plate Tectonics Quiz. After that i want the program to display the questions found in a textfile (platetectonics.txt) in a GUI box. This part isn't working correctly. I think that there's something missing in it.

switch(choice1)
{
case 1: JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"You are taking the Plate Tectonics Quiz");
Scanner s = null;
try {
s = new Scanner(new BufferedReader(new FileReader("plate_tectonics.txt")));

while (s.hasNext()) {
s.useDelimiter(",\\s*");
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,s.next());
}
} finally {
if (s != null)
s.close();

break;

}

[bravephantom]

im still confused with what u wanna do. thats what i've guessed:

this gets u each line(question) in the txt file.

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,s.nextLine());
using the method nextLine instead of next() which gets a single string

[saytri]

Yeah you were totally right. It worked. Thanks a lot for your help. I really, really appreciate it. :-)

[bravephantom]

thats good news.
ur welcome :)

would u mind sending me the assignment?? coz i wanna do it as a self challenge
good luck

[r035198x]

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[bravephantom]

Guys let me remind you all of the need to stick to posting guidelines when posting in the forums.
Posting code without code tags and spoon feeding are not allowed.

Merry Christmas.

ok man sry for that. just wanted to help.
merry christmas :)