[JAVA][Beginning Java 8 Games Development]

Chapter 11 ■ Moving Your Action Figure in 2D: Controlling the X and Y Display Screen Coordinates
InvinciBagel.java Redesign: Adding Logical Methods
The first thing that I want to do regarding the InvinciBagel.java code, which should already be open in a tab in
NetBeans (if it is not, use the right-click and Op en work process), is to reorganize the current code using a half-dozen
new methods that logically contain, as well as show, the different areas that we will need to address in order to add
new Actors to our game. These include things such as managing event handling, adding new Image asset references,
creating the new game Actor objects, adding the new actors to the Scene Graph, adding the new Actor objects to the
CURRENT_CAST List we created in Chapter 10, and starting the GamePlayLoop AnimationTimer pulse engine.
The first thing that we should do is to put those Java statements that need to be done first and that need to be in
the .start() method itself at the top of the code. These create the Scene Graph root, a Scene object, and set up the
Stage object:
primaryStage.setTitle(InvinciBagel);
root = new StackPane();
scene = new Scene(root, WIDTH, HEIGHT, Color.WHITE);
primaryStage.setScene(scene);
primaryStage.show();
As you can see in Figure 11-1, we are taking the root and scene object instantiations out of the method that is
called .createSplashScreenNodes(), and putting these at the top of the .start() method. I am doing this because they
are foundational to our InvinciBagel game (class). Next, we are also going to add six all-new method structures to our
existing code. The only method that will remain untouched during this process is your .addNodesToStackPane(). You
can see I’m calling the methods in a logical order: add events, add images, add actors, add Scene Graph, and add cast.
Figure 11-1. Place basic configuration statements at top of the .start() method, and then the eight game method calls
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