[JAVA][Beginning Java 8 Games Development]

Chapter 15 ■ Implementing Game Audio Assets: Using the JavaFX AudioClip Class Audio Sequencing Engine
Like the AudioClip class, the URL class was also scratch coded to provide URL objects, as you can see from the
Java class hierarchy, which looks like the following:
java.lang.Object
> java.net.URL
The second step in our implementation of our six AudioClip objects is the declaration of six private URL objects
named iAudioFile0 through iAudioFile5 at the top of the InvinciBagel.java class using a compound declaration
statement, which can be seen in Figure 15-12, and looks like the following single line of Java code:
private URL iAudioFile0, iAudioFile1, iAudioFile2, iAudioFile3, iAudioFile4, iAudioFile5;
Figure 15-12. Add a private URL compound declaration statement for the iAudioFile0 through iAudioFile5 URL objects
As you can see in Figure 15-12, you will have to again use the Alt-Enter work process, and select the “Add import
for java.net.URL” option, and again have NetBeans 8 write your URL class import statement for you.
Now we are ready to write the Java code that loads our URL objects, and then uses these to instantiate our
AudioClip objects. To maintain our high level of code organization using custom methods inside this class, let’s add a
loadAudioAssets() method into our .start() method next, and then create a private void loadAudioAssets() method to
hold our AudioClip related code, in case we want to add more than six digital audio assets into our game in the future.
It is important to note that due to the versatility of the AudioClip class as far as pitch shifting and 2D spatial (left
to right) audio movement is concerned, you should not need as many audio assets as you might think, because you
can turn even six well-designed audio assets into literally hundreds of different sound effects for your game play.
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