Need help to play .midi files in my java hangman game

[north violet]

• Photo nr. 1 is from our last assignment, where we made Tetris. The "TetrisSong.java" class is written entirely by our professors and was/is working perfectly.
• Photo nr 2: I´ve tried to copy and modify the "TetrisSong.java" class to fit my HANGMAN game, but SOMETHING isn´t working.
• Photo nr 3: Same problem as Photo nr 2.
• Photo nr 4: The controller for my HANGMAN game; which is working (as far as I can tell) identically to the controller in my Tetris game (when it comes to playing these .midi files).

Please help; this is driving me crazy!

[south goblet]

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[onyx bison]

what's the actual error its giving ?

and the last shot is using the wrong variable names

u got a class called Hang...Drums with a variable drumtrack, yet your calling this.hangmanM instead of drumtrack

same with the second red

3th and 4th will most likey be not-initialized

[north violet]

I figurde it out, I think

some naming errors among other stuff

But now my programme in general; which ran fine before I started adding the .midi files, isn´t running

it´s giving a huge list of alleged errors; even though I can´t see what those errors are supposed to be

for example line 22 here:
I can´t see whats wrong?

[onyx bison]

1st one seems to indicate the file does not exist. Tried printing that it can be found ?

( as your in vcs is not easy to debug )

[north violet]

I haven´t touched or made that Reader class

it was already in the repo when we we´re handed our assignments

[onyx bison]

that's not the error its saying 😉

[north violet]

oh

🥶

[onyx bison]

its giving a NPE

most likely its having troubles locating the file it's been given so it goes ' boom'

[north violet]

okok

do you think that the error is due to there being 2 new files (the 2 midi files) in the RESOURCES folder?

[onyx bison]

can u show a shot ?

[north violet]

wheras earlier, when the program was running nicely, there was only 1 file in the RESOURCES folder?

[north violet]

of what?

[onyx bison]

the resource folder

it shoud'nt matter how many files are in there

[north violet]

deathPiss2.png == pixelated pud of pee when game over is reached and the character is dead..... stupid; I know. Just ignore it

lol

[onyx bison]

name seems to be correct

what's on fileprocessor line 18 ?

[north violet]

a "group leader" from Uni is trying to help me now

tbh I think he´s not giving the right advice

line 18 in FileProcessor USED TO BE THIS:

InputStream in = getClass().getResourceAsStream(filename);
BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));

so line 18 and 19

now its this (which he told me to add)

[onyx bison]

that seems weird

new FileReader would make more sense

[north violet]

yes, AND IT WORKED EARLIER

ONLY changes made are:

• added 2 x .midi files to RESOURCES folder
• Created 2 new classes to process/read these .midi files
• Added field variabeles + constructor info + initialized stuff needed to run the music from the .midi files

I don´t for the life of me understand how that effects a method that is UNTOUCHED in the midi file process, whose only task is to read a .txt file

[onyx bison]

what happens when u start it in debug mode ?

( and place a break point on that line 18 ( or whatever it is now )

[north violet]

figured it out!

the change this uni dude suggested did in fact work; i just had a typo in there

still dont see WHY it was necessary to change the file reader method; seeing that it worked fine before I added the midi files

but now my fucking midi files arent playing, haha

gotta love programming!!