{"author_name":"longcatlover","cat":"LD #26","comments":[{"author_name":"pirate-rob","time":"April 17, 2013 6:26 am","epoch":1366197960,"text":"Wow, I never knew java user input was this easy, rather helpful, thanks!","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"","time":"April 17, 2013 9:03 am","epoch":1366207380,"text":"The take method will not work – you can’t use Strings as an output in Java because they are immutable. Your sample will always output “You said: !”","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"bitcrusher","time":"April 17, 2013 9:28 am","epoch":1366208880,"text":"Your say method won’t work. Try…","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"bitcrusher","time":"April 17, 2013 9:43 am","epoch":1366209780,"text":"Have your take method return a String:","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"LlamaHarmer","time":"April 17, 2013 11:14 am","epoch":1366215240,"text":"You thought about using the Console?","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"SuperDisk","time":"April 17, 2013 12:57 pm","epoch":1366221420,"text":"The “take” method won’t work. First, you’re modifying a reference, and you’re not freeing the Scanner sc, causing a memory leak.","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"EatenAlive3","time":"April 20, 2013 5:15 pm","epoch":1366496100,"text":"For take, try:","spam":"N"},{"author_name":"Shadow12345","time":"August 20, 2013 6:32 pm","epoch":1377041520,"text":"Hey! what about sysout?","spam":"N"}],"epoch":1366192680,"likes":3,"metadata":{"p_key":"47087","p_author":"longcatlover","p_authorkey":"20816","p_urlkey":"82750","p_title":"To all Java Text-Based game makers!","p_cat":"LD #26","p_event":"LD26","p_time":"1366192680","p_likes":"3","p_comments":"8","p_status":"UPD5","us_key":"20816","us_name":"longcatlover","us_username":"longcatlover","event_start":"1366934400","event_key":"16","event_name":"LD26"},"text":"

Hello! I am planning to make a text-based game this year in the Ludum Dare, and I realized how lazy I am…so lazy that I find it hard to keep typing “System.out.println(“walri rock!”)”, so I thought of this:<\/em><\/p>\n

In the beginning of your main class, make 2 methods, a “say” method and a “take” method, these will work as the cin and count in C++, the say method would be the following:<\/p>\n

public static void say(String message){
\n System.out.println(say);
\n }<\/code><\/p>\n

And make the take method the following:<\/p>\n

public static void take(String takeTo){
\n Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
\n takeTo = sc.nextLine();
\n }<\/code><\/p>\n

And TA-DA!!! I am stating now though, that I have NOT tested the take method…Anyhow, you would use the code like this:<\/p>\n

\/\/This is a simple intake\/output thingy majogger
\n String input = \"\";
\n say(\"Say something!\");
\n take(input);
\n say(\"You said: \" + input + \"!\");
\n <\/code><\/p>\n

Fell free to use any of this code, and Good Luck to all!!!!!<\/p>","time":"April 17th, 2013 4:58 am","title":"To all Java Text-Based game makers!"}