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POTrying to make a hangman program, can't get it to show guessed letters
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copied!<p>I'm trying to create a hangman program. The phrase they have to guess is "bad hair day", and they see "<strong>* *<em></strong> *</em>*". When the user inputs a character nothing changes. I'm not 100% sure were I am going wrong but maybe it's in the passwordlabel2 or somewhere in the loop.</p> <p>Demo Class</p> <pre><code> public class SecretPhrase { int wrong = 0; //ignore for now String phrase = "Bad hair day"; //hidden, what the user has to guess String hiddenPhrase = "*** **** ***"; //what the user originally sees public void changeLetter(char input) { StringBuilder checker = new StringBuilder(input); StringBuilder(hiddenPhrase); boolean wrongGuess = true; for (int i=0; i<phrase.length(); i++) { if (phrase.charAt(i) == input){ checker.setCharAt(i, input); wrongGuess = false; } } hiddenPhrase = checker.toString(); if (wrongGuess){ wrong++; } } private void StringBuilder(String hiddenPhrase) { // TODO Auto-generated method stub } } </code></pre> <hr> <p>UI Class</p> <pre><code>import java.awt.Container; import java.awt.FlowLayout; import java.awt.event.ActionEvent; import java.awt.event.ActionListener; import javax.swing.JApplet; import javax.swing.JButton; import javax.swing.JLabel; import javax.swing.JTextField; public class SecretPhraseUI extends JApplet implements ActionListener { SecretPhrase phrase = new SecretPhrase(); JLabel passwordLabel = new JLabel("Enter a letter to guess the phrase." ); //sets label to display message JLabel passwordLabel2 = new JLabel( phrase.hiddenPhrase ); //sets label to display message JTextField inputBox = new JTextField(40); //sets text field JButton runButton = new JButton("Run"); //button that starts program Container con = getContentPane(); //gets container public void init() { con.setLayout(new FlowLayout());//sets flowlayout con.add(new JLabel()); //jlabel container con.add(inputBox); //input box container con.add(runButton); //run button container con.add(passwordLabel); //password label container con.add(passwordLabel2); //password label container runButton.addActionListener(this);//looks to see if run is clicked inputBox.addActionListener(this);//looks to see if input box is used } public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { String userInput = inputBox.getText(); //gets input from user } } </code></pre>

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