I'm trying to make a really basic blackjack game using drawingpanel and graphics, but when i try to utilize Scanner (System.in) , it seems like i have to use the alternate output window. How can I use system.in inside the graphics panel?

Why are you trying to use system.in if you have a gui? if you want user input, they should be clicking a button or other gui control

i just want to display text inserted by the user...so not necessarily system.in, i just need whatever code needed to display user input

Simplest way is JOptionPane ( http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/javax/swing/JOptionPane.html )

For exemple will get input from user

This post was edited by m0hawk on May 18 2013 01:59am

thank you

if you're trying to display info, i think you want system.out, not system.in. but yes, using gui controls is preferable. if it's just for logging purposes then you should be using a log file

no i wanted input from a user to be able to be displayed as output. Similar to system.in --> system.out, but wiht the gui interface. i just wanted a direct code to make that happen

the purpose of it is for a blackjack game where a user can type something (like their name) where it can then be converted into text on the graphics interface

why don't you have user enter string in JTextfield and use the getText() method to extract the string