Thx alot. That worked perfectly

Just another (hopefully quick) questions. Now i want to access the string index in a if else condition but i somehow dont find the right syntax.

What do you mean by " access the string index". What is the final goal?

The relationship for an array is the following:

[index number] -> corresponding element value

So, if you wanna know which element is stored @ index 0 from array words, just use:

println( words[0] );

result is -> apple

Remember that an array is simply a collection of values stored by a common label, which in turn, needs to be accessed by an index.

in word[2] we have:

• word -> it is the common label (array variable) for the list of values
• [2] -> the index position to be accessed; more precisely, the 3rd element of the array (starts @ index 0)
  

Sorry i think i expressed myself a little lousy. Here is my code.

Took some time, but I guess I was able to figure out what you really wanted was to check whether both indices had a match when mouse is clicked!
That is, the word being displayed matched its fill color!

For that, 2 global variables were created to store both indices -> byte colorIdx, wordIdx;

Then I've set apart a function to randomly choose and display them:

1. void displayWord() {
2.     background(255);
3. 
   
4.     colorIdx = (byte) random(colors.length);
5.     wordIdx  = (byte) random(words.length);
6. 
   
7.     fill( colors[colorIdx] );
8.     text( words[wordIdx], 30, 150 );
9. }

Now i have a general question about the frameCount command.

As it is also stated in the reference, frameCount itself is not a command!
Instead, it is a Processing built-in variable!!!

Processing automatically increases that variable by 1 just before calling function draw().
In short, frameCount = how many times draw() was called.

Be aware that draw() is "tentatively" called frameRate() / second.
That is, whether draw() is finished fast enough!

frameRate(fps) with fps = 2, means draw() may be called 2 times for each second!
Consequently, frameCount increases by 2 after each second.

Now for the other questions...:

final static byte stateWait = 2; What do you achieve by making them static?:

Barely nothing!!! It's just a habit of mine. 
Also, Processing is not very fond of static variables either! 
Static is more useful for pure Java programming. Which I know very little myself!
In a class context, static is the opposite of an instanced field variable.
The real shining star here is the final declaration.
It tells the Java compiler that a variable won't change its stored value later ever!
Thus Java compiler can optimize and even inline that variable wherever it's used within the program!
Static can also increase the chance for an inlining too!

byte gameState = statePick; wouldn't you assign gamestate the permanent value 0                                                                      with  this line?    Why do you  do that?:

gameState itself isn't declared final, so its stored value can change normally!

short score; I cannot find score in the language reference. What function does it have?:

Here I just declare variable score as data-type short. It's for storing how many times the player matched a color w/ the right color name word when he/she/it clicks.

  if (frameCount == frameFinish) How can this even be possible? dont you always add   
        gameState = statePick;       +4 (frameWait) to the frameCount?:

Although we can hack system variable frameCount to an arbitrary value ourselves, the normal behavior is letting Processing increasing that 1 by 1 each time it calls back function draw()!
frameFinish is set ("current" frameCount + frameWait) into the future.
So that after the 2 indices are random-picked and displayed,
the player has some " frameWait" draw() calls to react and press a mouse button!
It also serves to wait some frames to display the result, either correct or wrong image!

Whew! I guess I'm done w/ your doubts for now.
But don't hold back to ask more!
Happy programming!!! 

Thx for all the effort you have put into my project. Anyway i have one last question. I've changed quite alot recently and i am very happy with the program as it is right now. There is just one thing i dont understand. Every time an image appears the state changes to stateShow and 4 times stateHalt (I understand everything up to this point). Now you write:

Hello again!

So we've got ourselves a mystery here. 

1. updateState();
2. 
   
3.     if (gameState == statePick) {
4.       displayWord();
5.       frameFinish = frameCount + frameWait;
6.       gameState = stateWait;
7.     }

What happens is that u pdateState() is the only place which is responsible to change -> gameState = statePick;
However, it's very short-lived! At the end of the if (gameState == statePick) block, gameState = stateWait before going to anywhere else!!!  (excluding displayWord() of course!)
Thus, your debugging prints won't ever be able to pickup the ephemeral briefly statePick!  

Moreover, I've got some tips for you:

Java language conventions (and many others as well) determine that variables and functions to always start w/ a lowercase letter. And for composite names, the other words to be capitalized at the beginning.
So, for consistency:

• imggameover should be -> imgGameOver.
• Spielstand -> spielStand or spielstand whether it's a composite German word or not. ^_^

Cya soon!

Hi,