Re: Newbie again. "Java Keyboard input" is a failure as a google search. What isn't?

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:21:15 -0400
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<4c44ddda$0$273$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>
On 19-07-2010 02:58, Mike Barnard wrote:

On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 22:48:28 -0400, Arne Vajh?j<arne@vajhoej.dk>
wrote:

On 18-07-2010 11:52, Simon Brooke wrote:

On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 10:59:06 +0000, Stefan Ram wrote:

Mike Barnard<m.barnard.trousers@thunderin.co.uk> writes:

So, can the Fount Of All Knowledge point me to a good tutorial on the
most efficient methods to get input from a user please? I don't expect
hand holding, honestly, just pointers to really useful tutorials.


    To get text from the keyboard, the most obvious means to me would be a
    javax.swing.JTextField.


Errrrr.... WHY?!?!?!?

It seems perverse to go to the overhead of building a complete WIMP user
interface to do

    for ( int c = System.in.read(); c> -1; c = System.in.read()) {
        char ch = (char) c;
        /* now do something with ch */
    }

In practice something like the following would be more useful:

string readLineFromStdin() {
    StringBuffer buffy = new StringBuffer();
    bool reading = true;

    while ( reading) {
        int c = System.in.read();

        switch (c) {
            case 10:
            case 13:
            case -1:
                reading = false;
                break;
            default:
                buffy.append( (char)c);
                break;
        }
    }
    return buffy.toString();
}

although in anything but the simplest utility programs you'd probably do
something a touch more sophisticated than that.


No - you would do it a lot simpler than that in any program.

BufferedReader or Scanner will save a lot of code.


As I'm finding out, thanks. However, would the above teach me anything
about 'how it works' even if it is overly wordy?


No.

Not unless you count "learning good 1980 C code programming
using Java as language".

Arne

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