I am having difficulty on why my program cannot be outputted. Can you please tell me where I did wrong. My code is pasted below.

Question

import hsa.Console;

import java.awt.*;

import java.io.*;

import java.util.*;

public class HangMan

{

static Console c;

public static void main (String []args) throws IOException

{ // Main Method.

c = new Console();

// Declaration of Variables for the main method.

String line; // Get first line in the file.

String text = ""; // Read the text in the file.

Boolean replay = true;

try

{

BufferedReader input = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("hangMan.txt"));

line = input.readLine();

while (line != null)

{

if (line.indexOf("'") == -1)

{

text += line + " , ";

}

line = input.readLine();

}

input.close();

}

catch (Exception e)

{

c.println("There was a problem reading the file");

}

}

public static void playGame()

{

// Declaration of Variables

String word = "";

String hiddenWord = ""; // The hidden word that the user try to guess.

int bodyParts = 6; // The number of body parts

String letter;

String guesses = "";

Boolean finished = false;

int lengthWord; // The length of the hidden word.

String tempHidden = "";

word = word.toLowerCase();

for (int i = 0; i <= word.length(); i++)

{

hiddenWord += '_';

}

while (finished == false)

{

c.println("Number of body parts" + bodyParts);

c.println("Guesses" + guesses);

c.println(hiddenWord);

c.println("Enter a letter: ");

letter = c.readLine();

for (int x = 0; x < word.length(); x++) // Loop the length of the word

{

if (letter.charAt(0) == word.charAt(x))

{

tempHidden += word.charAt(x);

}

else

{

tempHidden +=hiddenWord.charAt(x);

}

}

String splitWord[] = word.split("");

for (int z = 0; z < splitWord.length; z++)

{

if (letter.equalsIgnoreCase(splitWord[z]))

{

break;

}

else if (z == splitWord.length -1)

{

bodyParts--;

break;

}

}

hiddenWord = tempHidden;

tempHidden = "";

if (hiddenWord.equalsIgnoreCase(word))

{

finished = true;

c.println("Well done! You guessed the word!");

}

if (bodyParts == 0)

{

finished = true;

c.println("Well then! All body parts have vanished! The correct word was:" + word);

}

String split[] = guesses.split(" ");

for (int i = 0; i < split.length; i++)

{

if (letter.equalsIgnoreCase(split[i]))

{

c.println("Sorry, that letter has already been entered");

}

else if (i == split.length -1)

{

guesses += letter + " ";

}

}

}

}

public static void playAgain()

{

String playAgain;

Boolean replay = true;

c.println("Do you want to play again? (Y/N): ");

playAgain = c.readLine();

if (playAgain.equalsIgnoreCase("Y"))

{

c.println("New Game" + "\n");

}

else if (playAgain.equalsIgnoreCase("N"))

{

replay = false;

}

else

{

c.println("Inacurrate choice");

System.exit(0);

}

}

}

Answer 1

c is a private console object and you are trying to use it in main....

either make it public, which undermines OOP

or move some of your routines into public methods in your HangMan class....

If you make it static public, then you can reference it as HangMan.c.println;

I would recommend that It would be better to rethink your design....

send me the program requirements and I can help you more with that.