I'm trying to use GridWorld (from the AP computer science curriculum) for making a game, and I'm having problems with using multiple grids. World's setGrid method doesn't seem to work. I was under the impression that you could have multiple grid objects co-existing, and that the current one pointed to by the World is the one that gets drawn in the GUI. But that's not what happens... when I call the World's setGrid and pass it a grid, the grid seems to only LOGICALLY be set, and System.out.printing it gives the correct results of its actors and their current positions, but the GUI doesn't update and you can't actually see the grid.
I wrote a simple ActorWorld to illustrate this:
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
{
ActorWorld x = new ActorWorld()
{
Grid<Actor> gr1 = new BoundedGrid<Actor>(10,10);
Grid<Actor> gr2 = new BoundedGrid<Actor>(10,10);
public void step()
{
new Actor().putSelfInGrid(gr1, new Location(1,1));
new Actor().putSelfInGrid(gr2, new Location(9,9));
if (getGrid() == gr2)
setGrid(gr1);
else
setGrid(gr2);
System.out.println(getGrid());
}
};
x.show();
}
Every step it's supposed to change to the other grid and display it, so basically what SHOULD be happening is one Actor in the grid changing location from (1,1) to (9,9). But in fact, it just displays an empty grid (because it's using the original grid it made in the default constructor, since I didn't provide one).
What's going on? How do I get it to paint the current grid?
Okay, I found the problem. Upon e-mailing gridworld's creator, he revealed that this is a bug.
I found the source code and added the line
display.setGrid(world.getGrid());
to the beginning of WorldFrame's repaint() method. The problem was that WorldFrame itself updates its current Grid, so logically it's on the right one, but the WorldFrame's GridPanel object, display, which is actually the JPanel that the grid is drawn in, does not get told to update its grid prior to the repaint. With this, the complete method is
public void repaint()
{
display.setGrid(world.getGrid());
String message = getWorld().getMessage();
if (message == null)
message = resources.getString("message.default");
messageArea.setText(message);
messageArea.repaint();
display.repaint(); // for applet
super.repaint();
}
and all is well. :)
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this is a problem that I've been really struggling with
I need to create a game for some University coursework. The game is basically a 4x4 grid. When i click a button, the player should move randomly within 1 square of it's location.
There's enemy spaceships that are generated randomly over the grid, and if the player lands on the spaceship, it destroys it. if there's two enemy ships on the same sqaure and the player lands on that square, the player is destroyed.
I've created a GIU using gridlayout and the button that I need to move the player, but I'm having problems trying to figure out how to actually use the grid. I've created an element class to create objects for the grid (ie, a list of enemy ships), but I don't know how to use this class with my gridlayout. I know I also have to redraw the grid after each move to reflect the changes, but I don't know if I would need to create a custom redraw method for this.
Any push in the correct direction so I can get my program actually doing something would be really helpful.
Some time ago I created a card game that also operated based on a GridLayout. Below is some of the code that was used to drive major events:
CardPanel extends JPanel {
public CardPanel() {
setLayout(gridLayout);
placeCards(N);
chatBoxText = new JTextArea(5, 30);
}
public void placeCards(int numCards) {
for (int i = 0; i < numCards; i++) {
Card card = deck.distributeCard();
String cardImageName = card.getImageName();
JLabel jLabel = makeImage(cardImageName);
cardSet.add(new GraphicCard(card, jLabel));
add(jLabel);
jLabel.addMouseListener(this);
}
if (GameLogic.noSetsOnBoard(cardSet)) {
gridLayout.setRows(gridLayout.getRows() + 1);
placeCards(3);
}
}
public void updateCard(Integer location) {
Card card = deck.distributeCard();
String cardImageName = card.getImageName();
JLabel jLabel = makeImage(cardImageName);
cardSet.set(location, new GraphicCard(card, jLabel));
jLabel.addMouseListener(this);
}
}
The CardPanel here is an object that represents the GridLayout (you see the constructor) as well as some of those helper methods.
Further on, on particular actions, I have the following code:
cardPanel.removeAll();
// Some other logic here
for (GraphicCard card: cardSet) {
cardPanel.add(card.getJLabel());
}
cardPanel.revalidate();
cardPanel.repaint();
In short, yes, it is custom, but it is not difficult. There are better ways to do it than the above such that you do not need to empty the entire panel in order to refresh it, the logic I have omitted above merited this particular solution.
The approach I used kept track of a CardPanel object which was an abstraction that contained not only the information that each box represented (in my case a card with some values), but also the graphic element to be rendered.
This was some time ago, so I don't recall the exact details but hopefully this is helpful.
I tried to figure this out myself but I can't. I'm stuck at a strange problem.
I have a Java Program with multiple classes and forms (I use Intellij and the build in GUI-Creator). When I switch from one Screen to another I just call frame.setVisible(false); at the leafing window and frame.setVisible(true); at the window I want to show next.
On a Button Click I make this:
In Class 1:
if (e.getSource() == umschaltenButton) {
this.mainW.goToMainWindow();
logger.log(Level.INFO, "Switched Back to MainMenu");
frame.setVisible(false);
}
And here is the weird part.
In Class 2:
public void goToMainWindow() {
frame = tvElectronics.drawMainWindow(); // I get a new Frame with new Images and so on
frame.addMouseListener(al);
frame.add(BotomPanel); // in here is the JComboBox
frame.setSize(LENGTH, HEIGHT);
comboBox1.removeAllItems(); // Here it tryes to refere to the old frame before i made frame = tvElectronics.drawMainWindow();
Vector<String[]> content = tvElectronics.getContent();
for (int i = 0; i < tvElectronics.getAnz(); ++i) {
comboBox1.addItem((i + 1) + ". " + content.get(i)[3]);
}
comboBox1.setSelectedIndex(chanel);
frame.setVisible(true);
}
And so it tries to update the old frame from class2 which no longer exists because of the new one I just created. And so I have 2 frames open: one as I want it and one strange old frame form class2.
My problem is that I want bind my JComboBox to a new Frame and update it but it is still connected to the old one and that causes weird problems like jumping back in the function. I mean it is at the last line of goToMainWindow() and then it starts again at the first line.
First off you should avoid swapping JFrames as your program does since this is a very annoying GUI design. Please read The Use of Multiple JFrames, Good/Bad Practice? for more on this.
Next, it's impossible for us to tell what GUI view your JComboBox is associated with.
But having said that, it really shouldn't matter. Instead of doing what you're doing, I would give the display class that holds a JCombBox a public method that you call on the containing display class that clears the contained JComboBox's model or that places items in the model. This way, there will be no ambiguity as to which JComboBox you're referring to, and this way you avoid directly exposing a view's inner components.
As an aside, I try to gear my display or view classes towards creating JPanels, not JFrames as this will give my code much greater flexibility.
For example
// my display class
class Display1 {
private DefaultComboBoxModel<String> myModel = new DefaultComboBoxModel<>();
private JComboBox<String> myCombo = new JComboBox<>(myModel);
public void removeAllComboElements() {
myModel.removeAllElements();
}
public void addElement(String ele) {
myModel.addElement(ele);
}
}
Same for your Display2 class. Then you can call the correct method on the JComboBox that is held by the correct view/display.
This way, when you swap displays, perhaps by using a CardLayout, you can clear the JComboBox in the display that is being shown by calling its own method to clear its own combobox's model.
So, my issue is this: I'm attempting to define a custom set of nodes for a Javafx XYChart LineChart, where each node corresponds to a point that was plotted directly from the datasets. After looking around a little bit, Jewlesea actually had a solution at one point about how to add dynamic labels to nodes on a linechart graph that gave me enough of a push in the right direction to create black symbols (they are dots at the moment, but they can be many different things). Now I have a requirement that requires me to change ONE of the nodes on the XY chart into an 'X'. this could be either through loading an image in place of the 'node', or through physically manipulating the 'shape' parameter in .css.
The problem begins when I try to add this property dynamically, since which node has the 'x' will always be changing. Here are the things I've tried, and they all end up with no results whatsoever, regardless of the property used.
private XYChart.Data datum( Double x, Double y )
{
final XYChart.Data data = new XYChart.Data(x, y);
data.setNode(
new HoveredThresholdNode(x, y));
//data.getNode().setStyle("-fx-background-image: url(\"redX.png\");");
data.getNode().styleProperty().bind(
new SimpleStringProperty("-fx-background-color: #0181e2;")
.concat("-fx-font-size: 20px;")
.concat("-fx-background-radius: 0;")
.concat("-fx-background-insets: 0;")
.concat("-fx-shape: \"M2,0 L5,4 L8,0 L10,0 L10,2 L6,5 L10,8 L10,10 L8,10 L5,6 L2,10 L0,10 L0,8 L4,5 L0,2 L0,0 Z\";")
);
data.getNode().toFront();
return data;
}
So in the above, you can see that this is adding a property through the use of the 'bind' function after the dataNode has already been created. Also note above, I tried doing it through the 'setStyle' interface at this level to give it a background image, with no success. Also, no errors are being thrown, no 'invalid css' or anything of the sort, just simply no display on the graph at all when done this way.
now, in the HoveredThresholdNode (Again a big thanks to Jewelsea for being a master of Javafx and putting this bit of code online, it's where 90% of this class came from.) I tried essentially the same thing, at a different level. (actually being IN the node creation class, as opposed to a layer above it).
class HoveredThresholdNode extends StackPane {
/**
*
* #param x the x value of our node (this gets passed around a bunch)
* #param y the y value of our node (also gets passed around a bunch)
*/
HoveredThresholdNode(Double x, Double y) {
//The preferred size of each node of the graph
//getStylesheets().add(getClass().getResource("style/XYChart.css").toExternalForm());
//getStyleClass().add("xyChart-Node");
//setOpacity(.8);
styleProperty().bind(
new SimpleStringProperty("-fx-background-color: #0181e2;")
.concat("-fx-font-size: 20px;")
.concat("-fx-background-radius: 0;")
.concat("-fx-background-insets: 0;")
.concat("-fx-shape: \"M2,0 L5,4 L8,0 L10,0 L10,2 L6,5 L10,8 L10,10 L8,10 L5,6 L2,10 L0,10 L0,8 L4,5 L0,2 L0,0 Z\";")
);
//this label is the 'tooltip' label for the graph.
final Label label = createDataThresholdLabel(x, y);
final double Myx = x;
final double Myy = y;
setOnMouseEntered(new EventHandler<MouseEvent>() {
#Override public void handle(MouseEvent mouseEvent) {
if (Myx == 0) {
label.setTextFill(Color.DARKGRAY);
} else if (Myx > 0) {
label.setTextFill(Color.SPRINGGREEN);
} else {
label.setTextFill(Color.FIREBRICK);
}
label.setText("Current position: " + Myx + " , " + Myy);
//setCursor(Cursor.NONE);
toFront();
}
});
setOnMouseExited(new EventHandler<MouseEvent>() {
#Override public void handle(MouseEvent mouseEvent) {
//getChildren().clear();
//setCursor(Cursor.CROSSHAIR);
}
});
}
Now note, I also tried the setStyle(java.lang.String) method, with all of the same type of CSS, with no success. I have NO idea why this isn't styling dynamically. It's almost as if the custom nodes are simply ignoring all new .css that I define at runtime?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, please don't be shy if you need more details or explanation on any points.
So, I did finally find a good workaround to solve my problem, although not in the way I thought it would happen. The main problem I was having, was that I was extending from stackPane to create my node, which only had a very small number of graphical display options available to it, and by switching the 'prefSize()' property, I was simply changing the size of that stackPane, and then filling in the background area of that stack pane black, giving it a very deceptive shape-look to it.
So rather than use a stack pane, whenever I reached the node that I needed to place the red 'X' on, I simply called a different Datum method that returned a datum with an ImageView Attached, like so:
private XYChart.Data CoLDatum(Double x, Double y){
final XYChart.Data data = new XYChart.Data(x, y);
ImageView myImage = new ImageView(new Image(getClass().getResource("style/redX.png").toExternalForm()));
data.setNode(myImage);
data.getNode().setOnMouseEntered(new EventHandler<MouseEvent>() {
#Override public void handle(MouseEvent mouseEvent) {
main_label.setText("Some Text.");
}
});
data.getNode().setOnMouseExited(new EventHandler<MouseEvent>(){
#Override public void handle(MouseEvent mouseEvent) {
main_label.setText("");
}
});
return data;
}
and since ImageView is an implementing class of Node, this worked out just fine, and allowed me to load up an image for that one single node in the graph, while still maintaining a listener to give custom text to our information label when the red 'x' was hovered over with a mouse. Sometimes, it's the simple solutions that slip right past you.
I imagine that, had I employed stackPane properties properly with the setStyle(java.lang.String) method, they would have absolutely shown up, and I was just butchering the nature of a stack pane. Interesting.
Hopefully this helps somebody else stuck with similar problems!
Hey guys I've come with 2 problems, both being Java Swing related. I am developing a card game in Java. I use arreays lists of type to hold the values of each card and I have a main Play() method that calls updates to the GUI using invokeLater and a Singleton approach to my GUI class.
The first question is fairly simple. I create the cards on the GUI using JLabels like so; attaching relevent listeners and adding them to the appropriate panel, in this case, the 'Human Hand Panel':
for (int i = 0; i < (HumanHand.size()); i++)
{
Card card = HumanHand.get(i);
BufferedImage cardImage = null;
try {
cardImage = ImageIO.read(new File("card/" + card + ".jpg"));
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
JLabel picLabel = new JLabel(new ImageIcon( cardImage ));
picLabel.addMouseListener((MouseListener) me);
HumanHandDisplay.add(picLabel);
}
//HumanHandDisplay.validate();
HumanHandDisplay.updateUI();
The problem I'm having is that when the human hand is more than 7 cards or so, it creates a larger panel area and starts a new row of cards beneath. What I would like to do is, when the hand reaches a certain size, the cards start to overlap eachother (like you would hold cards in your hand). I've messed about with .validate() but gotten nowhere. Any help you can give here would be most welcome.
My second question is about using a Swing Worker to return the Human player's card selection. I have read a little bit about Swing workers but I'm unsure as to the best way to implement one in my own game. At present, using the console I have a scanner than takes the input of an int as the choice (the place of the specific card in the ArrayList). I would like this int to be selected by clicking on the card in the players hand. At the moment I use:
String name = "" + i;
picLabel.setName(name);
to set the names of the Card JLabels to the int in the for loop creating them (as shown^^), and I use:
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
String name = ((JLabel)e.getSource()).getName();
System.out.println("Working " + name);
selection = Integer.parseInt(name);
}
To return that int when one of the cards is clicked. Here is what I've been using to call the GUI methods from Play() aswell:
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
GUI.getInstance().UpdateHand();
}
});
My question is, how can I get the Play method to call a method in the GUI class, which sets up the hand with the appropriate listeners (lets call it GUIPlayerSelection() for now) then wait for the player to click a card, which then returns the int to my Play() method in my main class that represents the card selected. I'm unsure as how to use invoke and wait, as in, if I use invoke and wait, will it just wait for the cards to be set up, or will it wait for the mouseClicked() method to finish aswell? Or will I have to do something else to make sure it waits for the mouse to be clicked after the hand set-up? And how then will I return that int? I've been told to use a swing worker but if someone could explain how I can implement that in this case that would be awesome.
Thank-you in advance.
For your first question, are you having an issue getting the frame to repaint or with the layout of the cards?
If the latter, then you may want to have a look at Java Layout Managers, it describes how the content pane inside your JFrame organizes the components added to it.
If none of those will work for you (and I don't think they will with that you describe), you can use the setBounds method to manually align your JLabels.
I created a live wallpaper service using AndEngine library. On screen there are a number of bird Sprite objects that flying repeatedly from the left to right started in random y-coordinate (I'm using LoopEntityModifier and PathModifier for this, see my previous question if you're curious). The birds shouldn't start flying in same time, but there is a gap/interval about 3 seconds before another bird showed up from left most screen.
The question is what technique that I have to use to achieve that?
I had created array of Sprites to hold the bird sprites. The code is like this...
public class MyLiveWallpaperService extends BaseLiveWallpaperService {
private BirdSprite[] birdSprites; // BirdSprite is actually an extension class from AnimatedSprite
...
#Override
public Scene onLoadScene() {
...
birdSprites= new BirdSprite[4];
for (int i=0; i<4; ++i) {
birdSprites[i] = new BirdSprite(0, 0, birdTextureRegion);
scene.getChild(LAYER_FRONT).attachChild(birdSprites[i]);
}
}
}
The above code produces four birds that show-up on left screen in same time. I tried by adding Thread.sleep(3000) before calling attachChild, but it affects whole application. The live wallpapaper application become hanged for several seconds when started.
This is the solution I found by using TimerHandler:
scene.registerUpdateHandler(new TimerHandler(3, true, new ITimerCallback() {
#Override
public void onTimePassed(TimerHandler pTimerHandler) {
// your code here will be executed every 3 seconds (see 1st argument of TimerHandler)
...
scene.getChild(LAYER_FRONT).attachChild(birdSprites[i]);
}
}));
Please let me know if you have better solution.