[JAVA][Beginning Java 8 Games Development]

Chapter 7 ■ The Foundation of Game Play Loop: The JavaFX Pulse System and the Game Processing Architecture
Next, you went into the InvinciBagel.java class and declared and named a new gamePlayLoop GamePlayLoop
object, using the new class you created. Then, you tested the code and profiled it to see if any new entries appeared in
the Threads Live Results tabs. You also tested the .handle() method that NetBeans coded for you and changed it to an
empty method to get rid of repeated errors thrown by the pulse event engine. Next, you implemented the .start() and
.stop() methods, using the Java super keyword, so that you can control your use of the pulse engine if you want to add
in additional Java statements, such as saving the game state, later on, when the pulse engine is started and stopped.
You again tested and profiled the application to observe your progress. Finally, you placed some test code in the
.handle() method so that you could again test and profile the application to make sure that the pulse event engine was
quickly and consistently processing the code that you placed in the .handle() method.
In the next chapter, you are going to take a look at how to create and implement abstract classes which will later
be used to create your game sprites. Once we have that in place, it will allow us to display them, animate them, and
process their movement on the display screen inside your new gamePlayLoop engine in real time in later chapters.
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