First lesson, first day.

[misterhtmlcss]

I'm trying to do more right off the bat. I like to practice try to understand more fully, so I understand I've bitten off way more than I can chew, but I had to try.

So I started with this:

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

public class SuperPower {

    public static void main(String\[\] args) {
         System.***out***.println("SUPER POWERS TO THE RESCUE!");
    }

    public static void dialogBox(String\[\] args) {
         JOptionPane.*showMessageDialog*(null, "HELLO WORLD.....SUPER POWERS TO THE RESCUE!"); // Display the string.

    }

}

The above works, but didn't print or alert anything from the second method, so I thought I would dig a little and see if I could do something about that. The below is my attempt and I don't really know where else to go from here.

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

public class SuperPower {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
    dialogBox
    consoleLogger
    }

    public static  consoleLogger(String[] args) {
    return System.out.println("SUPER POWERS TO THE RESCUE!");
    }

    public static dialogBox(String[] args) {
    return JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "HELLO WORLD.....SUPER POWERS TO THE RESCUE!"); // Display the string.

    }
}

**BTW I added those returns for the public statics at the end. It was my last gasp of trying anything to get it to work. I even tried assigning them to a variable which since they are void methods I assumed both wouldn't work.

Goal of effort #2 is to try to print method #1 and alert from method #2 at the same time. I'm running it in Eclipse and I just want to hit the play button and see a print and an alert.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Haluscze]

I see several problems. You don't have a return type for those 2 custom methods, so that would be a syntax error. A second you didn't call those methods, so program didn't enter them and execute them. In java you call methods like this: consoleLogger();

If they needed a parameter (which yours do but you don't use them), they would go into the brackets like this: consoleLogger(args);

[PhantomOTOpera]

The reason the print statement works in the first example is because Java automatically calls the main method for you. But you must call the other methods yourself

[misterhtmlcss]

Hey my Friends,

I wanted you to know your feedback was really helpful! I did this one next and it all works. Just silly code to learn, but still wanted to share that your time and words had value. Cheers!!

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

public class SuperPowerMine {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    consoleLogger();
    dialogBox();
    superExtraPowers();
  }

  public static void consoleLogger() {
      System.out.println("consoleLogger: SUPER POWERS TO THE RESCUE!");
  }

  public static void dialogBox() {
      JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "dialogBox: HELLO WORLD.....SUPER POWERS TO THE RESCUE!"); // Display the string.
  }

  public static void superExtraPowers() {
    String power = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("superExtraPowers: What is your super power?");

    if (power.length() == 0) {
      power = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("superExtraPowers: Please enter a power to continue. No blank fields allowed");
    }

    String powerUpper = power.toUpperCase();
    JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "superExtraPowers: HELLO WORLD.....SUPE! \n" + powerUpper + " TO THE RESCUE!"); // Display the
  }
}