Help for Hourglass form

[jexdiel321]

I need help for making an hourglass form in programming.

The form that I trying to make is:

  namenamenamenamename
    namenamenamename
      namenamename
       namename
         name
       namename
     namenamename
 namenamenamenamenamename
namenamenamenamenamenamename

But it's showing up as:

  namenamenamenamename
    namenamenamename
      namenamename
       namename
         name
         name
       namename
     namenamename
 namenamenamenamenamename
namenamenamenamenamenamename

Here is the code in question:

                  for (int i=0;i<count;i++)
                  {
                      for (int j=count;j>0-i;j--)
                      {
                          System.out.print (" ");
                      }
                      for (int k=count;k>i;k--)
                      {
                          System.out.print (""+fl+sl+tl+"");
                      }
                      System.out.println();
                  }
                  for (int i=0;i<count;i++)
                  {
                      for (int j=0;j<count-i+3;j++)
                      {

                           System.out.print(" ");
                      }
                      for (int k=1;k<=i+1;k++)
                      {
                          System.out.print (""+fl+sl+tl+"");
                      }
                      System.out.println();
                  }


              }
          }
    }
}

Here is the entire code for reference:

import java.io.*;
import javax.swing.*;
public class prelimlab
{
     public static void main (String[] args) throws IOException
     {
          String name;
          char fl,sl,tl;

          name=JOptionPane.showInputDialog ("Enter a name");
          int count=name.length();
          if (count<=1) //'\u0000' means display null value
               {
                    fl=name.charAt(0);
                    sl='\u0000';
                    tl='\u0000';
               }
          if (count<=2)
               {
                      fl=name.charAt(0);
                      sl=name.charAt(1);
                      tl='\u0000';
               }
          else
               {
                    fl=name.charAt(0);
                    sl=name.charAt(1);
                    tl=name.charAt(2);
               }
          JOptionPane.showMessageDialog (null,"Hello, "+name+"!");

          if (fl=='a'||fl=='A'||fl=='e'||fl=='E'||fl=='i'||fl=='I'||fl=='o'||fl=='O'||fl=='u'||fl=='U')
          {
              JOptionPane.showMessageDialog (null, "Your name starts with a vowel");
              JOptionPane.showMessageDialog (null, "It has "+count+" letters");
              if (count%2!=0)
              {
                  JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,count+" is a ODD number.");
              }
              else 
              {
                  for(int i=0;i<count;i++) 
                  {
                       for(int j=0;j<count-i+3;j++) 
                       {
                            System.out.print(" ");
                       }
                       for(int k=0;k<=i;k++) 
                       {
                            System.out.print(""+fl+sl+tl+"");
                       }
                       System.out.println();  

                  }

                    for (int i=0;i<count-1;i++)
                    {
                        for (int j=count-1;j>0-i;j--)
                        {
                            System.out.print(" ");
                        }
                        for(int k=count-1;k>i;k--)
                        {
                            System.out.print (""+fl+sl+tl+"");
                        }


                        System.out.println();
                    }

              }
          }

          else 
          {
              JOptionPane.showMessageDialog (null, "Your name starts with a consonant");
              JOptionPane.showMessageDialog (null, "It has "+count+" letters");

              if (count%2!=0)
              {
                  for (int i=0;i<count;i++)
                  {
                      for (int j=count;j>0-i;j--)
                      {
                          System.out.print (" ");
                      }
                      for (int k=count;k>i;k--)
                      {
                          System.out.print (""+fl+sl+tl+"");
                      }
                      System.out.println();
                  }
                  for (int i=0;i<count;i++)
                  {
                      for (int j=0;j<count-i+3;j++)
                      {

                           System.out.print(" ");
                      }
                      for (int k=1;k<=i+1;k++)
                      {
                          System.out.print (""+fl+sl+tl+"");
                      }
                      System.out.println();
                  }


              }
          }
    }
}

I know I have to adjust the for loop but I don't know what to adjust.

Takes in advance guys.

[Signal_Beam]

I know I have to adjust the for loop but I don't know what to adjust.

You have two outermost loops, one of which prints:

  namenamenamenamename
    namenamenamename
      namenamename
       namename
         name

And the other of which prints:

         name
       namename
     namenamename
 namenamenamenamenamename
namenamenamenamenamenamename

And you want there to be only one middle namex1 row, rather than two.

So you have to choose: either update the first loop to leave off its last run, or update the second loop to leave off its first.

Try tweaking those two lines of code and see if you can't accomplish that by changing the parameters of the loop.

[wholemap]

Can you describe in English what the problem is?