Hello again! I’ve got another question for my Processing class. I found a great example in another forum on how to make a Choose Your Own Adventure game; I’m currently dissecting it and trying to make it my own, with the main issue right now being the HashMap. It’s not working correctly at all, and I’m not sure if it’s something I’m doing or if Processing just doesn’t support it (I checked the references and it seemed to behave with it fine), but I think it’s a little bit above my current knowledge at the moment anyhow. From my understanding, HashMap is essential to making this thing run, and that’s where I really need the help / a kick in the right direction.
My main questions are: do I absolutely need HashMap to make this functional? Is there something else I can use in place of HashMap, or a way to backtrack it to a more basic function? If both are a “no”, does anyone have any recommendations on what I can do instead?
Thank you so much for your time if you read this! Even just a “no, sorry” is a ton of help!
// BASE: By Chrisir https://forum.processing.org/two/discussion/9562/simple-choose-your-own-adventure.html
final int startScreen = 0; // final = int cannot be changed at any point
final int playGame = 1;
int state = startScreen;
String globalSelectionNumb;
Choice[] choices =
{
new Choice("1", "this the start of the game", "GO ON #2"),
new Choice("2", "this is where the body goes", "do you GO ON #3", "or GO BACK #1"),
new Choice("3", "congrats! you won", "START OVER #1"),
};
HashMap<String.Choice> allChoices = new HashMap<String.Choices>(); // for looking up options; all choices go to choices, go to number lookup(?)
Choices currentChoice; // current choice that's displayed on screen
ArrayList<String> choiceUsed = new ArrayList<String>(); // choices that have been used so far
void setup()
{
size(500, 500);
for (Choice ch : choices)
{
allChoices.put (ch.numb, ch);
}
currentChoice = allChoices.get("1"); // choices start with number one
globalSelectionNumb = "1";
choiceUsed.add(currentChoice.body);
state = startScreen;
}
void draw()
{
background (255, 0, 0);
switch(state) // allows for different game screens
{
case startScreen:
showStartScreen();
break;
case playGame:
play();
break;
default:
println ("not sure what this is for yet");
exit();
break;
}
}
void showStartScreen()
{
fill(0, 255, 0);
textSize(30);
text("GAME TITLE", 250, 20);
textSize(20);
textLeading(15);
text("information", 50, 50);
text("more information /n"
+ "even more info", 50, 105); // /n = new line
text("press any key.", 250, 250);
}
void play()
{
fill(0);
textSize(20);
text(currentChoice.body, 10, 30);
int y = 390;
int toChoose = 1;
for (String chs : currentChoice.options)
{
String [] myArray = split(chs, "#");
text(toChoose++ + ":" + myArray[0], 20, y);
y +=22;
}
// to test:
text (globalSelectionNumb, width-30, height-30);
}
void keyPressed()
{
switch(state)
{
case startScreen:
state = playGame;
break;
case playGame:
int optionNB = currentChoice.options.length;
int cont = key - '1';
if (cont <0 || cont >= optionNB)
return;
String contOn = currentChoice.options[cont];
String [] myArray = split(contOn, "#");
String contNumb = myArray[1];
globalSelectionNumb = contNumb;
choices chosen = choices.get(contNumb);
if (chosen != null)
{
currentChoice = choices.get(contNumb);
choiceUsed.add(currentChoice.body);
}
break;
default:
println("still don't know what this does");
exit();
break;
}
}
class Choice
{
String numb; // position in the array lineup, used to move to next option (i.e, move from line one to line fifty)
String body; // body of text (i.e "you find yourself in a dark room")
String[] options; // actual part that allows movement to next option (i.e, type 3 to move to line 3);
//Choice (String n, String b, String o);
Choice(String n, String b, String... o) // "..." allows for more than one option
{
numb = n;
body = b;
options = o;
}
String toString() // the string within a string
{
return numb + "-" + body + "(" + options.length +")";
}
}
