[JAVA][Beginning Java 8 Games Development]

Chapter 8 ■ Creating Your Actor Engine: Design the Characters for Your Game and Define Their Capabilities
As you can see in Figures 8-13 and 8-14, we did the same type of compound statement for the initializations:
lifeSpan = 1000;
vX = vY = damage = offsetX = offsetY = 0;
boundScale = boundRot = friction = gravity = bounce = 0;
Figure 8-14. Optimize your Java code by using compound declarations, and leveraging default initialization values
This could also be done using only two lines of code, if you happen to be editing on an HDTV display screen:
lifeSpan = 1000;
vX = vY = damage = offsetX = offsetY = boundScale = boundRot = friction = gravity = bounce = 0;
Next, if we depend on the Java compiler to initialize our variables to zero, as double and float variables will be
initialized to if no initialization value has been specified, we can reduce these two lines of code to one line of code:
lifeSpan = 1000;
Now that we’ve finished the “core” of our Hero() constructor method, let’s have NetBeans write some code!
Accessing Hero Variables: Creating Getter and Setter Methods
Create a line of space after your .collide() method, and place your cursor there, which will show NetBeans where
you want it to place the code that it is about to generate. This is shown in Figure 8-15 by a light-blue shaded line seen
behind the Source menu. Use a Source > Insert Code menu sequence or the Alt-Insert keystroke combination, and
when the Generate floating pop-up menu appears under this blue line (this shows the selected line of code), select
the Getter and Setter option, shown highlighted in Figure 8-15, and select all of the Hero classes. Make sure that all of
the Hero class variables are selected, either by using the Hero class master selection check box, or by using the check
box UI elements for each variable, as is shown on the right hand side of Figure 8-15.
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