Converting/reading int as a boolean...

[Tekk]

I have this set of code in my main RentACar.class:

int aaa  = JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(null,"AAA Selected?");

This'll show a dialog box with the text AAA Selected? and then a 'yes' 'no' 'cancel' button. It returns 0, 1, and 2 respectively. The project Im working on requires that we store the instance variable 'aaa' (located in the CarRental.class) as a boolean. When I use a set method to set a value to 'aaa' it obviously needs to be a boolean but showConfirmDialog returns an int. So any ideas on how I should go about converting that int into a boolean first...or maybe even changing things around so it would work better.

This teacher is extremely anal and is making some projects more difficult than they need to be....such is school life!!!

[vass0922]

you could use a switch statement

case 1:
boolvar = true;
case 2:
boolvar = false;
case 3:
break;

that work?

[jkrohn]

Hmmm, if bool is a native type, can you cast it?

Dunno how well that would work, but worth a try

Jkrohn

[strangerstill]

vass, Java switch statements 'fall through' (like in C)

jkrohn, Java only lets you cast primitive numeric types to each other - boolean is primitive but not numeric.

Tekk, how's about:

int result = JOptionPane.showConfirmDialog(null,"AAA Selected?");
if (result == JOptionPane.CANCEL_OPTION || result == JOptionPane.CLOSED_OPTION) {
    // bottle out
} else {
    boolean bresult = (result == JOptionPane.YES_OPTION);
}

[Tekk]

works fantastic stranger Altho I suppose I could made this easier and instead of using showConfirmDialog I could have done showInputDialog and had the user enter a y or an n. Then convert those to a boolean. Ah well. This way is more fancy!!! Thanks again

[strangerstill]

Yeah, don't annoy your users by making them do more work than they need to!