[JAVA][Beginning Java 8 Games Development]

Chapter 10 ■ Directing the Cast of Actors: Creating a Casting Director Engine and Creating the Bagel Actor Class
Figure 10-13. Code a public Bagel() constructor method that calls a super() constructor method (from Hero superclass)
The code to implement the (currently) empty .update() method uses a Java @Override keyword, and once it is in
place the error will disappear, and the code will be error-free, as seen in Figure 10-14. The code looks like this:
@Override
public void update() { // empty method structure }
Figure 10-14. Add a public void .update() method to override the public abstract void update method in the Hero class
Notice at the top of Figure 10-14 that you will have to add the import javafx.scene.image.Image; code statement
in order to be able to use the Image... annotation in your public Bagel() constructor method parameter list.
Just to be thorough, let’s override a public Boolean .collide() method as well, so that we have it in the Bagel
class. You may be wondering why NetBeans did not give us an error in Figure 10-14 when we did not add the .collide()
method to the Bagel class. As you can see in Figure 10-15, which shows the public abstract Hero class, we didn’t make
the .collide() method a public abstract method, like we did with the .update() method. This is why NetBeans 8 did not
generate any error highlighting, because we’re not required to implement the .collide() method in all Hero subclasses.
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