Thread: How can I create an option menu with while and switch statements?

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I'm trying to create a menu where you have four options:

You can register a bird you have seen in a textfile.
You can write the type of a bird you have seen.
You can write the place where you have seen the bird.
Close the program

This is what I have done so far:

import easyIO.*;

class Menu {

public static void main(String[] args) {

int counter = 0;
while (counter != 4) {
counter = meny();

switch (counter) {
case 1:
ReigsterBird(1);
break;
case 2:
WriteBirdType(2);
break;
case 3:
WritePlace(3);
break;
case 4:
break;

default:
System.out.println("Give a number between 1 and 4");

}
}
}

But I keep getting these errors, and also i'm not sure how I can solve this. Is there something i'm missing?

Menu.java:9: error: cannot find symbol
counter = meny();
^
symbol: method meny()
location: class Menu
loop.java:13: error: cannot find symbol
ReigsterBird(1);
^
symbol: method ReigsterBird(int)
location: class Menu
Menu.java:16: error: cannot find symbol
WriteBirdType(2);
^
symbol: method WriteBirdType(int)
location: class Menu
loop.java:19: error: cannot find symbol
WritePlace(3);
^
symbol: method WritePlace(int)
location: class Menu
4 errors

I would appreciate if someone could help out on this so I could create a menu where you have four options you can choose from.

I figured out that I need some help with creating that method from the statements i've posted. Do you know any hints or examples for how i can create method from those statements?

You have managed to create a main method. Why do you have problems creating other methods?

Not necessarily. Eclipse generates the main method automatically. A lot of programming courses teach some of the basic stuff first and get to functions a little later. Often instructors will teach new students to write out the basic skeleton of the main method, because it is required, and tell them to put their code in there without explaining that it is a method.

Dabbish, if you have a textbook, it should have a section on creating functions (aka methods, sorry if I confused you by using the terms interchangeably). If not, this link should help.