[bluejquestioner1213]

My hangman program seems to be working now, but my public class buffing is acting funny. For

private static Reader openFile (String filename)

it says that it can't find class reader. How do I fix that error? If it can't be fixed can I just delete the Buffing class from Hangman and have it work a different way?
Thanks.

public class Buffing
{    
     private static boolean temp;
     /////////////////////////////////
     private boolean isKeyboard;


     /** Connect to the disk file with the given name.  If this
      *  cannot be done, connect to the keyboard instead. */

     public Buffin (String filename)
     {    super (openFile (filename));
          isKeyboard = temp;
     }    //======================


     private static Reader openFile (String filename)
     {    try
          {    temp = false;
               return new FileReader (filename);  // IOException here
          }catch (IOException e)
          {    temp = true;
               return new InputStreamReader (System.in);
          }
     }    //======================


     /** Read one line from the file and return it.  
      *  Return null if at the end of the file. */

     public String readLine()
     {    if (isKeyboard)
          {    System.out.print (" input> ");
               System.out.flush();  // flush the output buffer
          }
          try
          {    return super.readLine(); // in BufferedReader
          }catch (IOException e)
          {    System.out.println ("Cannot read from the file");
               return null;
          }
     }    //============
    }

[jon.kiparsky]

Have you imported java.io.Reader?

[macosxnerd101]

Let's try something new- don't keep spamming your question around the forums. You already have a thread where this question has been asked. You do not need to open multiple threads or necropost on threads to get attention. Your posting patterns are getting a bit over the top, like you're not trying to solve your problems.

Here is where you asked the question and received an answer. Did you not think to read and try ForteGS' response before opening a new thread?