[JAVA][Beginning Java 8 Games Development]

Chapter 15 ■ Implementing Game Audio Assets: Using the JavaFX AudioClip Class Audio Sequencing Engine
Adding Your Audio Asset Loading Method: .loadAudioAssets( )
Create a method call inside of your start() method, as seen in Figure 15-13, called loadAudioAssets(); and place
it in the logical method order right before the loadImageAssets(); method invocation. To get rid of the wavy red
error highlighting, add a private void loadAudioAssets(){} empty method after the createSceneEventHandling()
method. In this way, your digital audio assets will be referenced and loaded into memory right after your KeyEvent
handling is set up, and right before your digital image assets are referenced and loaded into memory.
Figure 15-13. Create the private void .loadAudioAssets() method to hold the AudioClip object instantiation statements
Inside of your .loadAudioAssets() method body, your will have two Java code statements, as loading a digital
audio asset is a little bit more involved than referencing digital image assets. First, you will load your first iAudioFile0
URL object, using the getClass().getResource() method chain. This method chain loads the URL (uniform resource
locator) object with the digital audio sample resource that you want to use, and will do this for your Class object (in
this case, this is the InvinciBagel class, since that is the Java class which we are writing this code in).
The resource that you are looking to get the URL for goes inside of the .getResource() method call, and uses the
same format as the resource references that you used for your digital image assets, which in this case would be a
“/leftmono.wav” file reference, which is converted by the .getResource() method into a binary URL data format. This
Java code can be seen in Figure 15-14, and looks like the following Java method body:
private void loadAudioAssets() {
iAudioFile0 = getClass().getResource("/leftmono.wav");
iSound0 = new AudioClip(iAudioFile0.toString());
}
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