Java 1.4 Game Programming (Wordware Game and Graphics Library)

Chapter 2: Basics of Java Programming

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Chapter 3: Arrays and Strings

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Chapter 4: Multiple Classes

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Chapter 5: Packages, Utilities, and Error Handling

Figure 5-1: Testing our own package

Figure 5-2: Running an application from a JAR archive

Figure 5-3: Running an applet from a JAR archive

Figure 5-4: Using the ArrayList class

Figure 5-5: Finding and removing from an ArrayList

Figure 5-6: Using the LinkedList class

Figure 5-7: Using the Stack class

Figure 5-8: The exception is not caught

Figure 5-9: The exception is now caught by the try/catch block

Figure 5-10: Catching our own exception

Figure 5-11: Simple assertion

Chapter 6: Stream I/O

Figure 6-1: Console input example

Figure 6-2: The tic-tac-toe game

Figure 6-3: How our output file looks

Figure 6-4: The data has been loaded back in

Figure 6-5: Using serialization

Chapter 7: Threads

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Chapter 8: Applications and Applets

Figure 8-1: Our basic application window

Figure 8-2: Our basic applet

Figure 8-3: Our applet in AppletViewer

Figure 8-4: Passing parameters to an applet

Figure 8-5: Java look and feel

Chapter 9: Graphics

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Chapter 10: Using the Mouse and Keyboard

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Chapter 11: Using Sound and Music

Figure 11-1: Simple applet sound example

Figure 11-2: Playing sampled sound example

Figure 11-3: Streaming audio example

Figure 11-4: MIDI example

Figure 11-5: Sound manager example

Chapter 12: Game Programming Techniques

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Figure 12-9: Radius of a circle

Figure 12-10: A triangle

Figure 12-11: The magic of Pythagoras

Figure 12-12: Before and after intersection

Figure 12-13: Before and after intersection

Figure 12-14: The Game framework (showing Sample Screen)

Figure 12-15: The four screens in the framework demo

Figure 12-16: The Tile Scroller

Figure 12-17: The Tile Scroller with 32x64 pixel tiles instead of 32x32 pixel tiles

Figure 12-18: The Tile Walker

Figure 12-19: The player's tile sheet

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Figure 12-22: Another approach to the player's tile sheet

Figure 12-23: Tile collisions

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Figure 12-26: The red man's big brother Bungle

Figure 12-27: A mini Tile Walker application

Figure 12-28: A small 10x10 tile map

Chapter 13: Introduction to GUI

Figure 13-1: The JButton Example application

Figure 13-2: The JTextField Example application

Figure 13-3: The label below the JTextField is updated to show the name the user entered into the JTextField.

Figure 13-4: The Image Button Example application

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Figure 13-6: Custom GUI example

Chapter 14: Introduction to Databases

Figure 14-1: A visual interpretation of a database

Figure 14-2: Visualization of an inefficient method for storing user contact information

Figure 14-3: Visualization of an efficient method for storing user contact information

Figure 14-4: How the relate_contacts_to_user table looks after the addition of Jenny's contacts

Figure 14-5: user_table containing some sample data

Chapter 15: Using SQL with MySQL

Figure 15-1: Select the typical install option.

Figure 15-2: The MySQL directory structure

Figure 15-3: The contents of the bin directory

Figure 15-4: A blank window?!

Figure 15-5: Viewing the current running tasks

Figure 15-6: The MySQL console client

Figure 15-7: The Run dialog

Figure 15-8: The Registry Editor

Figure 15-9: The RunServices folder (key)

Figure 15-10: Pop-up menu

Figure 15-11: The Edit String dialog box

Figure 15-12: Viewing existing databases

Figure 15-13: Creating a database

Figure 15-14: The mydata database has been added to the list.

Figure 15-15: Dropping a database

Figure 15-16: Database listing after the DROP command

Figure 15-17: The myinfo database is now visible in the console after using the SHOW DATABASES command.

Figure 15-18: Here the userinfo table can be seen as part of our database.

Figure 15-19: Describing the userinfo table

Figure 15-20: Modifying a column name

Figure 15-21: Description of the updated userinfo table

Figure 15-22: Now the age column is of type INT rather than TINYINT.

Figure 15-23: Dropping a field from a table

Figure 15-24: As you can see, the e-mail field has now been removed.

Figure 15-25: After dropping the userinfo table, we have an empty database.

Figure 15-26: Creating the dmlexample database

Figure 15-27: Creating our sample table

Figure 15-28: Inserting a single row of data

Figure 15-29: Viewing the new row in the table

Figure 15-30: Inserting multiple rows in a single statement

Figure 15-31: Now we have four rows in the table.

Figure 15-32: The password field has been updated in all of the rows.

Figure 15-33: Updating only a single row

Figure 15-34: Conditional updates

Figure 15-35: Deleting a single row

Figure 15-36: Conditional deleting

Figure 15-37: Deleting all the data from a table

Figure 15-38: Inserting our new data into the sampletable table

Figure 15-39: Using the wildcard with a SELECT statement

Figure 15-40: Retrieving only a single column

Figure 15-41: Retrieving multiple columns

Figure 15-42: Selecting a single row

Figure 15-43: Selecting a single row with specified columns

Figure 15-44: The two- password problem!

Figure 15-45: Using LIKE with a SELECT statement

Figure 15-46: Our three tables in the gamedata database

Figure 15-47: Our data in the playerdata table

Figure 15-48: Our data in the relatefriends table

Figure 15-49: Finding out a player's friend list

Figure 15-50: Finding out a player's enemy list

Figure 15-51: Finding more data about an enemy

Figure 15-52: Using a join statement

Figure 15-53: The data to import in Windows Notepad

Figure 15-54: Importing data from a text file

Figure 15-55: The imported data in our playerdata table

Figure 15-56: Entering the data in Microsoft Excel

Figure 15-57: Saving as a tab-delimited text file

Figure 15-58: The excel.txt file in Notepad

Figure 15-59: The command-line window (MS-DOS)

Figure 15-60: Importing a text file into MySQL

Chapter 16: Using the JDBC

Figure 16-1: Our source directory structure

Figure 16-2: JDBC Example 1

Figure 16-3: This shows the data in MySQL, which has been inserted from our Java console application.

Figure 16-4: This screen shot shows the output from code listing 16-3.

Figure 16-5: Our skeleton application

Figure 16-6: Our skeleton application with GUI objects in place

Figure 16-7: Our scoredata table in our highscore database

Figure 16-8: The final Highscore application

Figure 16-9: Output from our metadata example, using the firsttest database

Figure 16-10: The prepared statement has inserted three rows into our database.

Chapter 17: Introduction to Networking

Figure 17-1: Finding out your IP address

Figure 17-2: The TCP echo server

Figure 17-3: The TCP echo client

Figure 17-4: The UDP echo server

Figure 17-5: The UDP echo client

Figure 17-6: The game server console application

Figure 17-7: Everyone having fun playing "I'm a circle!" or not

Figure 17-8: Joel then felt lonely as everyone moved away from him.

Chapter 18: Introduction to NIO Networking

Figure 18-1: ByteBuffer example

Figure 18-2: Blocking server (after a client has connected)

Figure 18-3: Blocking client

Figure 18-4: Non-blocking server (after client has been executed)

Figure 18-5: Client

Bonus Chapter: A Tour of the Swing GUI

Figure 1: The JLabel example application

Figure 2: The JButton example application

Figure 3: The Image Button example application

Figure 4: The JTextField example application

Figure 5: The label below the JTextField is updated to show the name the user entered.

Figure 6: Using the JPasswordField

Figure 7: Using the JTextArea

Figure 8: As you can see, the text in the JTextArea was output to the console when we clicked the button.

Figure 9: Using the JScrollPane with the JtextArea

Figure 10: The JComboBox example application

Figure 11: Using the JCheckBox

Figure 12: This shows that we have successfully retrieved the state of the JCheckBox.

Figure 13: Changing the way the JCheckBox is displayed with custom images

Figure 14: Using the JRadioButton

Figure 15: This shows the selection of the radio buttons being changed.

Figure 16: Replacing the standard JRadioButtons with custom images

Figure 17: The JProgressBar example

Figure 18: The JList example

Figure 19: Implementing a scrollable JList

Figure 20: Using the JTable

Figure 21: Using the JTree

Figure 22: Adding nodes to our JTree in the example

Figure 23: The JEditorPane example application

Figure 24: The Option Panes Example application

Figure 25: The message dialog

Figure 26: The warning dialog

Figure 27: The error dialog

Figure 28: The input dialog

Figure 29: The confirmation dialog

Figure 30: The component dialog

Figure 31: Using a menu

Figure 32: Using tool tips