#Console typing game

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upbeat shadowBOT
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I uploaded your attachments as Gist.

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<@&987246399047479336> please have a look, thanks.

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late olive
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okay reading

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so whats wrong here exactly?

faint sparrow
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thats actually really smart

late olive
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Sorry took a shower

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yeah so what you want to happen you can't exactly do with System.out, at least not easily?

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Good question

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i honestly don't know

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try printing the backspace character?

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see if that lets you clear out some stuff?

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🤷‍♂️

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because what you want is to print

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abcde

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but when they type f to replace it with

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<RED START>abcdef<RED END>

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the countdown timer is an added complication, but im ignoring that for now

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it is?

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hmm

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okay so first

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when do you need this done?

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ugh

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well okay

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how advanced are you willing to get?

upbeat shadowBOT
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I uploaded your attachments as Gist.

late olive
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yeah sorry im working on something im not running your code rn

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hmm

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so okay a bit of advice on the threading stuff

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all your logic should be single threaded

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all of it

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that doesn't mean you can't have threads

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but the purpose of the threads should be different

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its a bit hard to explain

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this is not a guide to do what you want to do

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but in example 5 i show one possible technique

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that is, have the threads job be to put messages on a queue

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so in your case the messages are conceptually

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"they typed another letter"

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and

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"time is up"

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etc

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well, err

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I don't know?

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shit is hard

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i think you might be trying to make it better than your teacher expects with the word highlighting

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but it would be cool if you could pull it off

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well

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it doesn't have to?

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it really is hard to explain

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and i am distracted rn - ping me tommorow AM

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and/or have someone else help tonight

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this entire server is full of people good at java

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don't ping them or DM them like you did me

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which i need to point out - super rude

late olive
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when i said AM i didnt mean 1am

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