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That concludes the discussion of the update method for this program.
Listing 8 shows the render method for this program.
| Listing 8 . The render method. |
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public void render(GameContainer gc, Graphics g)
throws SlickException{//set the drawing mode to honor transparent pixels
g.setDrawMode(g.MODE_NORMAL);//Draw the background to erase the previous picture.background.draw(0,0);
//Draw every sprite in the array.for(int cnt = 0;cnt<sprites.length;cnt++){
//Ask the sprite to draw itself.sprites[cnt].draw();}//end for loop
}//end render}//end class Slick0200 |
The draw method of the Sprite01 class
The thing that is new about the code in Listing 8 is the call to the draw method of the Sprite01 class. That draw method is shown in Listing 9 .
| Listing 9 . The draw method of the Sprite01 class. |
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//This method causes the sprite to be drawn each time
// it is called.public void draw(){
image.draw(X,Y,scale,colorFilter);}//end draw |
Little reduction in complexity
In this case, moving the call to the draw method of the Image class from the render method to the Sprite01 class didn't do much to reduce the complexity of the program. However, that is because Ikept the draw method in the Sprite01 class very simple.
I could have made it much more capable and more complex by including additional functionality. For example, I could have caused the draw method to call the drawFlash method (see Slick0160: Using the draw and drawFlash methods ) of the Image class when the life property value goes to zero. In that case, only a silhouette of the dead sprite would be drawn in place of the actual image of the sprite.
That concludes the discussion of the render method.
I encourage you to copy the code from Listing 10 and Listing 11 . Compile the code and execute it,making changes, and observing the results of your changes. Make certain that you can explain why your changes behave as they do.
In this module, you learned how to develop a sprite class from which you can instantiate and animate swarms of sprite objects.
In the next module, you will learn how to use the Sprite01 class from this module to write a predator/prey simulation program involving thousandsof sprites, collision detection, and sound effects.
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