I've been working on a Text RPG like game for a little bit now. I have it set up so that it displays in a Swing window with a non editable JTextPane and a JTextField. I used swing so I could have different colors for text. Now the way the game works is that a user is given multiple options linked to numbers and they choose a number and the game processes what option they chose.
Now the problem that I am encountering is relatively new . I have a method in the superclass that is supposed to be passed down to the subclasses. It starts a battle Sequence.
Now this method calls another method in the middle called Decision which gives the user choices that are passed in as parameters. This is the part that isn't working. Both Decision and Battle are in the super class, but they are used in the subclasses. Originally, decision wasn't working in the subclasses, unless copied into the subclass itself. Now, Battle only loops through once, in the second loop, it stops working just like decision did. When I copy Battle into the subclass, it doesn't work at all.
This is really confusing me of how where the method is in the heirarchy would matter as they are passed down anyway.
Here is the Decision Method
DECISION METHOD
public static int decision(String question, int length, String[] choices){
int[] numbers = new int[length];
int iterator = 1;
for(int i = 0; i < length; i++){
numbers[i] = iterator;
iterator++;
}
boolean done = false;
while(!done){
print("");
print(question);
String options = "";
for(int i = 0; i < numbers.length; i++){
options = (options + numbers[i] + " - " + choices[i] + " ");
}
print(options);
boolean univSet = true;
int temp = univInt;
int entry = 1;
while(univSet){
if(univInt != 0){
univSet = false;
entry = univInt;
univInt = 0;
}
}
if(entry == 23){
help();
}else{
for(int i = 0; i < numbers.length; i++){
if(entry == numbers[i]){
done = true;
univInt = 0;
return entry;
}
}
print("Invalid Number, Try again");
print("");
univInt = 0;
}
}
return (Integer) null;
}
BATTLE Method
public static void battle(String name, int health, int power){
//print("-----------");
int iHealth = player.health;
sPrint(name + " battle initiated!");
print("You're pull out your " + player.curWeapon + "!");
print(player.actionTexts[player.weaponPos]);
int eHealth = health;
boolean done = false;
while(!done){
sPrint("Equipped Weapon and Power: " + player.curWeapon + " - " + player.weaponPower[player.weaponPos] + "\nCurrent Health: " + player.health + "\nEnemy Health: " + eHealth);
int move = decision("What will you do?", 3, new String[]{"Attack", "Block", "Cower In Fear"});
if(move == 1){
print("You attacked with the " + player.curWeapon + " for " + (int)(player.power * player.powerUp) + " damage!");
eHealth -= (int)(player.power * player.powerUp);
print("The " + name + " attacked for " + power + " damage!");
player.health -= power;
}else if(move == 2){
int chance = (int) (Math.random()* 100);
if(chance < 25){
print("You successfully blocked!");
print("The " + name + " attacked for 0 damage!");
}else if(chance >= 75){
print("You failed to block!");
print("The " + name + " attacked for " + power + " damage!");
player.health -= power;
}else{
print("You half blocked!");
print("The " + name + " attacked for only " + (power/2) + " damage!");
player.health -= (power/2);
}
}else{
gameOver();
}
if(player.health <= 0){
print("You ran out of health!");
done = true;
gameOver();
}
if(eHealth <= 0){
sPrint("You won the battle!");
print("");
player.health = iHealth;
done = true;
}
}
}
I know that the way I described this is probably very confusing. But I'd be glad to clear up all questions. I just want to know why this is acting up and how I can fix it.
Here's a link to a download of my game: http://wikisend.com/download/353028/src.rar
If you want to get to the site of the problem, enter 1, 'complete', 1, any text, 1, 2, 1, and then it sort of stops working. Alternatively you can just read through and play the game to the point. Thank you to anyone willing to help!
EDIT:
The thing that confuses me the most is this all worked before I implemented swing. Everything was the same in both methods before except for the addition of this part of decision
boolean univSet = true;
int temp = univInt;
int entry = 1;
while(univSet){
if(univInt != 0){
univSet = false;
entry = univInt;
univInt = 0;
}
}
univInt is a static integer that comes from the framework class and it is set to 0 when going through decision otherwise it is whatever number is entered into the swing display. The problem with decision is that sometimes, it randomly says that univInt == 0, when every test I give it says otherwise.
EDIT 2:
I've changed all of the static references to instance in the highest of the subclasses and then in the subclasses, they all showed up with an error in eclipse and the suggested fix was to change them to static. Why would this be occurring? Specifically the print method isn't working, which adds the text passed through to the JTextPane. Here is the print method:
public void print(String s){
StyleConstants.setForeground(style, Color.black);
try {
doc.insertString(doc.getLength(), s + "\n",style);
}
catch (BadLocationException e){}
output.select(doc.getLength(),doc.getLength());
}
the print function works in the same class it is in, but not the class below.
