Thread: I cant wrap my head around this. (I'm also new here so if I'm posting wrong, have some patience!)

Okay, this is kinda hard to explain.

I basically have a list of String variables which are named random objects. Those string variables are assigned colours so
E.G. String blood = "red"
String water = "clear"
String sky = "blue"
etc etc.... (sorry I dont know how to add the actual code i have written)

Then I want the user to be able to enter an object into a JOptionPane box thing and receive an answer in the next JOptionPane box, saying
what colour the object they have entered into the first box is.

So i have - JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter an object to find out what colour it is");

and I have - JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,);

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand from then on my brain has gone silent.

Thank you for any help! I know this is probably something easy but I'm just having a mind blank!

Originally Posted by PhHein

It wont work that way. What you need is a relation between your "object" and it's colour. You cannot access a variables name. Have a look at HashMap<String, String>, use the Object as the key and it's colour as the value.

I'm not entirely sure what that means, but I'll try and look at some YouTube examples, I think that would help me out. Thanks for letting me know I was on the wrong path anyway!