JOptionPane and if (a.equals.. problem

[Arkie_student]

Ive got this problem:

I cant compile the application because of this error:
int cannot be dereferenced
if (Select.equals ("Hard")) {

So the problem should he around here:

Select = JOptionPane.showOptionDialog(f, "Begin game", "Select difficulty", JOptionPane.DEFAULT_OPTION,JOptionPane.WARNING_MESSAGE, null, BeginGame,BeginGame[1]);

if (Select.equals ("Hard")) {
System.out.println("hard");
}
else {
System.out.println("");
}


Could it be that equals has problems getting info about what option has been choosed?

[sjalle]

I think you want to use the showInputDialog of JOptionPane. The one you use
return an int representing the selected option. E.g you are trying to
invoke (dereference) a method from an int, and a plain java int
does not have any methods, - its not an object.

showInputDialog returns an Object or a String depending on the type of parameter list
(method signature) you use. If you choose the one that returns an Object you will
have to typecast it to String (if that is what you are aiming for), like:

String selectedOpt=(String)JOptionPane.showInputDialog(....);