[Gantz]

Here is the applicable code:

do{                                            // beginning of 'do-while' loop
		rectAcreate(xCordA, yCordA, widthA, heightA); //creating rectangles A & B
		rectBcreate(xCordB, yCordB, widthB, heightB); // 
		
		doesRectIntersPointorNotInters(rectA, rectB); //check to see if the rectangles do not intersect or if they intersect at point
		
		if (rectInterAtPoint == true)
			System.out.println("The rectangles intersect at the following point: " + pointIntersect);
		else
			rectInterAtPoint = false;
		
		if (rectDoesNotIntersect == true)
			System.out.println("The rectangles do not intersect.");
		else
			rectDoesNotIntersect = false;
		
		if ((rectInterAtPoint == false) && (rectDoesNotIntersect == false))
			rectIntersect(rectA, rectB); //calculating/printing the intersection
		
		rectUnion(rectA, rectB); // calculating/printing the union
		
		keepGoing = false;                                           
		System.out.print("Do you want to study two more rectangles>");      // *** here is the problem, don't know why can't input
		String response = scan.nextLine();									// wtf??
		
		
		if (response.startsWith("y"))
		{
		keepGoing = true;
		}
		if (response.startsWith("y"))
		{
		keepGoing = true;
		}
		
		
		
		}while(keepGoing == true);

Here is program output:

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Please enter the x coordinate of the upper left corner>10
Please enter the y coordinate of the upper left corner>10
Please enter the x coordinate of the lower right corner>15
Please enter the y coordinate of the lower right corner>15

Please enter the x coordinate of the upper left corner>12
Please enter the y coordinate of the upper left corner>12
Please enter the x coordinate of the lower right corner>20
Please enter the y coordinate of the lower right corner>20
The intersection of these two rectangles is the rectangle: java.awt.Rectangle[x=12,y=12,width=13,height=13]
The union of these two rectangles is the rectangle: java.awt.Rectangle[x=10,y=10,width=22,height=22]
Do you want to study two more rectangles>

at this line:

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Do you want to study two more rectangles>

The console will not accept my input.

I don't see the problem.

[creative code monkey]

I don't see how your scanner is declared. Could you share that code? I've never worked with the Scanner class, but this is what I see just looking at examples:

import java.util.Scanner;
...
...
Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in);
...
...
String response = in.nextLine();
in.close();

You are also not closing the scanner, which maybe it's required?

Also what are you typing as input? I notice you have two identical if statements looking for anything starting with the letter 'y'. Are you trying to input a 'no'?

This post has been edited by creative code monkey: 20 September 2011 - 10:44 AM

[Gantz]

static Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in);

I've created a 'global variable scanner'. It seems to work fine in my other methods. Do you think I should try declaring a new scanner inside the do-while loop? I'm going to try that now.

Wow, that worked!! Why couldn't the 'global' scanner operate within the loop??

[Fuzzyness]

You might have been trying to use it in a non static method. Also it isn't public so it might not have had access to it. Wouldn't know without seeing rest of code

This post has been edited by Fuzzyness: 20 September 2011 - 10:49 AM

[creative code monkey]

Are you stepping into the code to see what the 'response' string gets set to?

Gantz, on 20 September 2011 - 10:45 AM, said:

Wow, that worked!! Why couldn't the 'global' scanner operate within the loop??

Good to know! Without actually stepping through your code, it'd be hard to tell why it wasn't working. As a general rule of thumb, though, limit your global variables, as they will just cause problems, like the one you just saw.

[pbl]

When you read basic data type using a Scanner the scanner will not "eat" the <endOfLine>
This was done on purpose so if you:

System.out.print("Enter 4 numbers: ");
int x1 = scan.nextInt();
int x2 = scan.nxtInt();
int x3 = scan.nxtInt();
int x4 = scan.nxtInt();

The user can then enter:
1 2 3 4 // all on the same line
or
1 2
3
4

So the scanner does: I have a int to read see if I can read from the current line
if not, due to end of line, read the <endOfLine> and check on the following line.

So nextInt() does not read the <endOfLine> if it does not need to. Understood ?

So doing:

int x = scan.nextInt();           // reads an int but not the <eol>
String answer = scan.nextLine();  // just reads the <eol> that follows your last inputed int

So, when switching from nextInt() to nextLine() you have to

int x = scan.nextInt();           // reads an int but not the <eol>
scan.nextLine();                  // reads the <eol> that follows your last inputed int
String answer = scan.nextLine();  // reads next line

Hope this helps

[iamnotgeek]

actually scanner is not meant for taking input
since u r a beginner i wud rather advice u to use datainputstream

[pbl]

iamnotgeek, on 21 September 2011 - 03:22 AM, said:

actually scanner is not meant for taking input
since u r a beginner i wud rather advice u to use datainputstream

Beginning of the defintion of the Scanner class n the API

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A simple text scanner which can parse primitive types and strings using regular expressions.

A Scanner breaks its input into tokens using a delimiter pattern, which by default matches whitespace. The resulting tokens may then be converted into values of different types using the various next methods.

For example, this code allows a user to read a number from System.in:

     Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);
     int i = sc.nextInt();
 

I don't know since when you program in Java, but when JRE 1.5 introduced the class Scanner, I was one of the few thousand who applaud to finaly a class who will permit us to perform terminal input without the use of try/catch clauses.

[cmpshr]

In case the user enters:
1 2 3 4 and this is a string

you should

int x1 = scan.nextInt();           
int x2 = scan.nextInt();           
int x3 = scan.nextInt();           
int x4 = scan.nextInt();           
String answer = scan.nextLine();
if(answer.length() == 0)
   answer = scan.nextLine();

that will work if the user enters the 5 elements on the same line or on different ones