[RafasLad]

Hi all, hoping someone out there can help me with some C# coding, struggling at the moment, want to throw my laptop out the window on to the front yard.

Basically I am building a C# console application, at the moment I have a menu in place, this menu allows the user to choose between two car factories, one in Detroit and one in Seattle, once the user chooses a factory, another message is displayed saying how many workers work at that specific factory, for convenience sake I've said two workers work at both factories. From there, I need a submenu to open that presents the user with four options:

1. Locate A Specific Vehicle
2. Locate A Specific Worker
3. Create A New Rota
4. Exit Menu

Could any of you please advise me on how to do so, the code I have at the moment is:

public string GetMenu()
        {
return "Welcome To " + this.factoryName + ".\nWe have " + myWorkers.Count.ToString() + " workers.";
        }

How do I create a sub menu after this line of code which holds the relevant data?

This post has been edited by JackOfAllTrades: 06 March 2012 - 03:18 PM
Reason for edit:: Added code tags

[modi123_1]

Break it down logically. We know that most programs execute each line from the top to the bottom. That means you would have the "which factory" question up at the top.. and right below that your preferred method of user input/storage of said input... then there you would have it ask your sub menu. Since it looks like the user can hit multiple options in a given application run it would be best to put that sub menu (and the code it executes) in a while loop that checks if the user's input is not the exit command.

Not too bad, right?

[RafasLad]

modi123_1, on 06 March 2012 - 03:19 PM, said:

Break it down logically. We know that most programs execute each line from the top to the bottom. That means you would have the "which factory" question up at the top.. and right below that your preferred method of user input/storage of said input... then there you would have it ask your sub menu. Since it looks like the user can hit multiple options in a given application run it would be best to put that sub menu (and the code it executes) in a while loop that checks if the user's input is not the exit command.

Not too bad, right?

Doesn't sound too difficult but I'm just lost altogether with it, any chance you could give me a form of example coding or similar to try and implement, PLEASE

[modi123_1]

Sorry chief - any example would literally *BE* your assignment done for you.

Try it out. Write an output statement and see about getting a user input.

[tlhIn`toq]

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