Hi everyone,
I am trying to build something based on Daniel Shiffman's idea for the HashMap example - http://processing.org/learning/topics/hashmapclass.html - and I am stuck at my first step.I am tryig to replace the HashMap with an array of objects so I can keep the order of each word in the text.

I am trying to iterate through the array and increase the size of the words that are more common.
I've got a function that I call from draw...

void draw() {

 background(255);
 fill(0);
 noStroke();
 textFont(f, 5);
 
 for (int i =0; i < wordArray.length; i++){
   
   wordArray[i].update();
   
 }

 makeWords(counter);
 
 counter++;
 
}

void makeWords(int count){

 String s = wordArray[count].word;

 for(int i = 0; i < wordArray.length; i++){

      if (wordArray[i].word == s ) {
   
      wordArray[i].count();

  }   else {
     wordArray[count].start(x, y);
 }
}
}

the update() method of the Word object displays the text and
the count() has a countWord++; line in it which would increase the occurrence hence the size of each word.

My problem is that inside the for loop the if statement gets executed only once.
If later in the text (in the wordArray )there's an instance of the same word and the if statement should return true, it ignores it and the code in the if statement doesn't run.
I checked it by tracing something after the for statement and after the if statement as well. The latter appeared only once.
I've been trying to find the solution for more than a day now, I tried to use nested loops, I tried using ArrayLists with Iterators - no luck.

I would appreciate very much any comments or advises!
Thank you!
b

oh, ok.
I would've never thought of that.
Thank you very much!