Java will not read input

[rACHAEL]

I have been working on a text-based Java games since last few days but I am getting a problem that I do not understand how to solve this. Here is my problem. The player gets a choice at the very beginning of the game, where he can get some info about the State and such. My problem is that when I run the game, and select the command option, I enter the info, and it only gives me two or three lines, pressing the Enter key on, but it does not work. How can I solve this problem?

[absolute55]

That's quiet strange but why didn't you provided the code of your game? It would have helped us to explain you the problem? Can you atleast provide some part of your code on what you think the problem lies? Moreover does the game is based on flash which is not loaded properly? It may be like your flash is not supported and thus getting the problem. Check your flash settings and make sure it is working properly.

[rACHAEL]

Here is the Command function:

public void Command(){
                boolean cmdFound = false;
                while(!cmdFound){
                System.out.print("Please enter the command, or type help for a list of commands:");
                String cmd = bucky.nextLine();
                if(cmd=="help"||cmd=="Help"){
                        baseFunction.CMDHelp();
                        cmdFound = true;
                } else if(cmd=="Info" || cmd=="info"){
                        cmdFound = true;
                        System.out.print("Your character's name is ");
                        System.out.println(this.Name);
                        System.out.print("You are level ");
                        System.out.println(this.Level);
                        System.out.print("You have ");
                        System.out.print(this.XP);
                        System.out.println(" XP.");
                } else {
                        System.out.println("Error: command not found");
                }}
        }

This is called by GetAction ():

public int GetAction(String Option1, String Option2, String Option3){
                int Answer;
                System.out.println("What do you want to do?");
                System.out.print("1)");
                System.out.println(Option1);
                System.out.print("2)");
                System.out.println(Option2);
                System.out.print("3)");
                System.out.println(Option3);
                System.out.println("4)Different command");
                Answer = bucky.nextInt();
                return Answer;
        }

Which in turn is called by a switch in the Main (String args [])

[Praetor]

An error that you have is because you're comparing strings with ==. Instead of this use minString.equals ("Something else"); possibly minString.equalsIgnoreCase ("Something else");. When you use == on objects, the objects must be of same type so that the comparison should work. The fact that two strings are equal does not mean they are the same object. Whether that's the problem you have now I do not know, but it was a bit difficult to understand what happened or not happened.

[rACHAEL]

Thanks for your support and suggestions Praetor but it worked partially. Now I have another problem: the program believe that I press the Enter key before I do anything, and says "Error: command not found" which is what I have said it to say if it can not find command. Why is it taking things for granted and showing me this kind of error? How can I avoid this problem?

[Praetor]

I guess it has something to do with

String cmd = bucky.nextLine();

What is Bucky? Check out what the next line(); is doing on this page so you may see the problem. Without knowing what type of Bucky is, it is difficult to give you some better tips. I would however use a BufferedReader and the method readline (). You can check out internet to get some documentation on the same for details.