java - GUI guessing game- how to program the guesses correctly -

i new website. below have put code. little background on gui--- guessing game. computer has thought of random number between 1 , 100 , user must try guess it. when user inputs number, program must tell user if number computer thinking of lower or higher or equal number user guessed. user has 8 tries guess number. if user fails guess number within 8 tries, program show user number , automatically shut down. question is- can tell me why guessing part of game not working? i.e. when enter 100 number want guess, program says "guess higher" , plus, program not correctly tell higher, lower, or equal. thanks!

import java.awt.dimension; import java.util.arrays; import java.util.list; import java.util.random; import java.util.scanner; import java.awt.font; import java.awt.layoutmanager; import javax.swing.*;  import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*;      public class board extends jpanel{     private int guesscount;     private jlabel jlabel1 = new jlabel("guessing game");     private jlabel jlabel2 = new jlabel("the computer think of number between");     private jlabel jlabel3 = new jlabel(" 1 , 100 , try guess it.");     private jlabel jlabel5 = new jlabel("if not number within 8 guesses,");     private jlabel jlabel6 = new jlabel("the program show number , will");     private jlabel jlabel7 = new jlabel("automatically shut down.");     private jlabel jlabel4 = new jlabel("enter guess: ");     private jtextfield guessinput = new jtextfield();     private jbutton submit = new jbutton();      board()      {         this.setlayout(new borderlayout());         jpanel subpaneltitle = new jpanel();           jlabel1.setbackground(color.white);          jlabel1.setforeground(color.green);          font font1 = new font("monospaced", font.bold, 50);         jlabel1.setfont(font1);         jlabel2.setbackground(color.white);          jlabel2.setforeground(color.magenta);          font font2 = new font("monospaced", font.bold, 18);         jlabel2.setfont(font2);         jlabel3.setbackground(color.white);          jlabel3.setforeground(color.magenta);          font font3 = new font("monospaced", font.bold, 18);         jlabel3.setfont(font3);         jlabel4.setbackground(color.white);          jlabel4.setforeground(color.blue);          font font4 = new font("monospaced", font.bold, 18);         jlabel4.setfont(font4);         jlabel5.setbackground(color.white);         jlabel5.setforeground(color.black);         font font5 = new font("monospaced", font.bold, 16);         jlabel5.setfont(font5);         jlabel6.setbackground(color.white);         jlabel6.setforeground(color.black);         jlabel6.setfont(font5);         jlabel7.setbackground(color.white);         jlabel7.setforeground(color.black);         jlabel7.setfont(font5);         guessinput.setpreferredsize(new dimension(50,50));         submit.setpreferredsize(new dimension(100,20));         submit.setforeground(color.red);         submit.settext("submit");         subpaneltitle.add(jlabel1);         subpaneltitle.add(jlabel2);         subpaneltitle.add(jlabel3);         subpaneltitle.add(jlabel5);         subpaneltitle.add(jlabel6);         subpaneltitle.add(jlabel7);         subpaneltitle.add(jlabel4);         subpaneltitle.add(guessinput);         subpaneltitle.add(submit);         subpaneltitle.setpreferredsize(new dimension(600, 350));             guesscount = -1;         jpanel panel = new jpanel();         panel.setlayout(new gridlayout(10, 10));          this.add(subpaneltitle,borderlayout.east);          submit.addactionlistener(new buttonlistener());      }          private class buttonlistener implements actionlistener         {             public void actionperformed(actionevent e)             {             string actioncommand = e.getactioncommand();             scanner sc=new scanner(system.in);             {              random generator = new random();             int max = 100;             int min = 1;             int random = generator.nextint((max-min+1)-min);             int getguessinput = 0;               guesscount++;              if(guesscount > 7){                 joptionpane.showmessagedialog(null, "you out of guesses. lose. number " + random);                 system.exit(0);             }             if(getguessinput < random){                 joptionpane.showmessagedialog(null, ("guess higher"));             }             else if(getguessinput > random){                 joptionpane.showmessagedialog(null, ("guess lower"));             }             else{                 joptionpane.showmessagedialog(null, ("congratulations, win! " + " took " + guesscount + " guesses "));             }               }         }     } }    

int getguessinput = 0; 

is never changed. you're dealing guess of 0, , guesscount gets reset well.

you should make these ints accessible outside actionlistener, , make sure getguessinput set.

the gory details of implementation left exercise reader.