[JAVA][Beginning Java 8 Games Development]

Chapter 8 ■ Creating Your Actor Engine: Design the Characters for Your Game and Define Their Capabilities
Initializing Sprite Control and Definition Variables in an Actor Constructor Method
For now we are going to initialize our pivot point pX and pY to 0 (the upper left corner origin) and all of our Boolean
flags to a value of false except for the isFixed variable, which for a fixed sprite will always be set to a value of true. We will
do this using the following eight lines of Java code inside of the current Actor() constructor method and underneath
the initial four lines of code in the method that deal with configuring the Actor object using the method parameters:
pX = 0;
pY = 0;
isAlive = false;
isFixed = true;
isBonus = false;
hasValu = false;
isFlipV = false;
isFlipH = false;
We could also do this using compound initialization statements. This would reduce the code to three lines:
px = pY = 0;
isFixed = true;
isAlive = isBonus = hasValu = isFlipV = isFlipH = false;
As you can see in Figure 8-8 we have now coded nearly three dozen lines of error-free Java 8 code, and we are
ready to create the rest of the .get() and .set() methods that will make up the public abstract Actor superclass.
Figure 8-8. Add initialization values to the eight new fixed sprite pivot and state definition variables you just declared
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