Question

The code shown below is my main method of a maze game I am creating.
In this main method I have a while loop that goes on until the game is finished.
In the while loop I print the maze then ask the user which direction they want to move their character.
I am having a crazy problem, the prompt to the user asking for the key, wont display.
The output just prints the maze and then waits for user input.

        do
        {               
            maze.printArray();              
            //Asks the user which direction they wish to move THIS LINE NEVER SHOWS UP!
            System.out.print ("Enter U,L,D,R to indicate move direction:   ");              
            //Gets the string from user, and changes it to a char, then converts it to an uppercase 
            direction = read.next().charAt(0);
            direction = Character.toUpperCase(direction);                   
            //Moves the character and increments the invalidMoves counter if the move was not legal
            if(maze.move(direction) == false)
                invalidMoves++;                 
            //Increment the move count regardless of its validity
            moves++;
        }
        while(maze.isFinished() == false);

This is the printArray method which is called before the print.

public void printArray() 
{
    for (char [] x : mazeArray) 
    {
        for (char y : x) 
        {
            //Print the characters for the row
            System.out.print (y);
        }           
        //linebreak to go to next row
        System.out.println ();
    }
    System.out.println ();
}

The 2D array holds a maze pattern which is displayed to the screen as such

XXXXXXXXXX
XO-------X
XX-XXX-XXX
XX---X---X
XXXX-X-X-X
X----X-XXX
X-XXXX--$X
XXXXXXXXXX

Answer 1

Try println instead of print…