String in switch

@erdelf, you could concatenate the possible strings into one string (if needed, with divider characters) and use the 'indexOf' command to get an integer to 'switch' on.

The problem is that if Greenfoot compiles with Java 7 compatibility on, people using Java 6 won't be able to run the scenarios. We'll probably change Greenfoot to compile for Java 7 only when Java 6 is not really being used anymore.

Well, one year later JDK 7 should have been deployed on many more computers. And for those who haven't upgrade, it would be a good motivation for it. Isn't it the right time to upgrade Greenfoot to Java 7 ? We shouldn't have to wait 5 years more unti JDK 6 has disappeared of the world... Let's go ahead ! It's boring not beeing able to use switch with String, especially with a learning tool for beginner...

Agreed wholeheartedly. Made an account just so I could say that. I ran into this problem just now. I guess I'll have to stick with the enum workaround. =(

Sorry but it may be good for learning Switch statements with strings but in terms of resources it uses roughly 10 times the cpu as if you used an Int.

And if Greenfoot switched, in a month 0% of Gallery users will be using Java 6. Maybe it does deserve a little more time to let people switch though. Maybe half a year. But really, there are few advantages to using Java 6. Though I would feel sorry for those unfortunate few who for various reasons are stuck using it. This is true, but I'd say a lot of Greenfoot users aren't making programs where this would matter. I did figure that in the long run it would be better to make my current project not do resource intensive things. I don't expect that it will ever be capable of lagging any computer though. =P

On Mac OS X, Java 7 is unfortunately still too buggy to be used reliably. The applet plugin in particular has problems which make a lot of Greenfoot scenarios unplayable. I hope that this will change, but in the meantime, switching to Java 7 would negatively affect a significant portion of our users. At some point Greenfoot will require and support Java 7, just not right now.

Hei, i use Greenfoot 2.4 at Linux with JDK 1.7 but the switch with Strings not working in greenfood. I get the errormessage Any chance that greenfoot in the upcoming release use java 7? cheers, L.

Oh, sounds good. Than i hope my shool migrate from Windows XP to Win7 or 8 so we can use Java 8. ^_^ Greetings, L.