[JAVA][Beginning Java 8 Games Development]

Chapter 7 ■ The Foundation of Game Play Loop: The JavaFX Pulse System and the Game Processing Architecture
Creating a GamePlayLoop Object: Adding Pulse Control
Next, you need to declare, name, and instantiate a GamePlayLoop object named gamePlayLoop, using the new class
you have created, in conjunction with the Java new keyword. Click the InvinciBagel.java tab, shown in Figure 7-9,
and add a line of code below the Insets object declaration declaring the GamePlayLoop object, and name it
gamePlayLoop, as follows:
GamePlayLoop gamePlayLoop;
Figure 7-9. Click the InvinciBagel.java editing tab, and declare a GamePlayLoop object named gamePlayLoop at the top
As you can see, the code is error free, because NetBeans has found your GamePlayLoop class, which contains the
overridden .handle() method and whose parent AnimationTimer class has a constructor method that can create an
AnimationTimer (type of) object, using the GamePlayLoop class, extending AnimationTimer.
Now, you have to instantiate, or create, an instance in memory of the GamePlayLoop object, using the Java new
keyword. This is done once, when the game is first started, which means that the instance needs to go in the
.start() method.
You can do this after all the other Scene Graph Node objects and ActionEvent EventHandler objects have been
created, using the following line of Java code (see also Figure 7-10):
gamePlayLoop = new GamePlayLoop();
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