Arcade Village Blog

The idea was:
- to keep the language java
- modify the game program at minimum
- to be able to offer more than a dozen games quickly without spending too much time. I create these games on my free time... But how? And the passion? Well, passion is born from creation and redoing what I already did is not very exciting. On the other hand, finding a trick to propose the games interested me.

My example uses the Hebi game program. You can download AVJukeBox to test it.

A Java applet looks like this (I deliberately deleted the useless code for the demonstration):

public class Hebi extends Applet implements GameListener, ActionListener

{

    avub ub; // This class allows the save of the best score in arcade village

    Label lmsg;

    HebiCanvas hc = null;

    HebiDecors d = null;

    OneImgProvider imgdico = null;

    int phase;

    StatusBar sp;

    Color c = Color.blue;

    Color ink = Color.yellow;

    Button b;

    AppletCookieMgr ck=null;



    public void init()

    {

     hc = new HebiCanvas(); // All my game use the same Canvas model



     String s = getParameter("bg");

     if ( s != null )

       {

         try

            {

                c = new Color( Integer.parseInt(s,16) );

            }

            catch( Exception e )

            {

            }

          }

        s = getParameter("ink");

        if ( s != null )

          {

            try

            {

                ink = new Color( Integer.parseInt(s,16) );

            }

            catch( Exception e )

            {

            }

          }

      ck = new AppletCookieMgr(this.getDocumentBase());

      try

       {

        ck.load();

       }

      catch( Exception e )

        {

        }

        setBackground(c);

        setForeground(ink);

      





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    java code for adding components (button, panels, ect ...)



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      if ( !loadData() ) return;



      this.addKeyListener( hc );

      hc.setGameListener(this);



      add( "Center", hc );

      onNewGame();

      doLayout();

      validate();

    }



    public void stop()

    {

        hc.stopThread();

    }



    public boolean loadData()

    {



//===========================================================      

      

     Java code where images and other files of the game are loaded.



//===========================================================      

    }



    //

    // Hebi contains a canvas for the game, a panel for the score and a panel for the game buttons

    //



    public void onNewGame()

    {

        sp.setScore(0);

        sp.setLife(3);

        setLevel(0);

        repaint();

    }





//===========================================================      



   ..... Still a little java code without interest for the demonstration



//===========================================================      



}

The first step is to create a program that wraps this applet. This is very simple because the applet is a component and can be included in a Frame.
Here is the code:

{

package avjukebox;

import javax.swing.JFrame;

public class avjukebox

{

static JFrame fenetre;





public static void main(String[] args)

{

fenetre = new JBMainFrame();

fenetre.addWindowListener(new JBWindowAdapter(fenetre));

fenetre.setLocationRelativeTo(null);

fenetre.setVisible(true);

fenetre.doLayout();

}

}



}

Then, the JBMainFrame object that calls the Java applet

public JBAppletPanel(...)



dd = new CCApplet();

....

this.add( dd); // Ajoute l'applet

doLayout(); // Force ce panel à se dessiner

dd.init(); // Appel init de l'applet

validate();

This step was not enough because applets retrieve data from the HTML page and it was necessary to create a new Applet object.
I will present this object in the next article.