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From: "Stefan Rybacki" <stefan.rybacki@THRWHITE.remove-dii-this>
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Tom A. schrieb:
> I was looking through some old pascal line printer listings from
> <mumble mumble> decades ago, and thought I'd try to recreate an old
> game I wrote in Java.  Java, of course, doesn't do WRITELN and READLN
> from the terminal, so I created a jframe with a  jscrollpane

Of course java can. Try System.in and System.out.

> containing a jtextarea for output, and below that a jtextfield to be
> the input area.  The question is, how to make the program stop and
> wait for input when it needs it.
> 
Don't stop, just don't change the state you're in. Just fire an event after
the input ocurred and let the main program react on that event.

 >...
> Thanks.
> 
> Tom A.

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