[JAVA][Beginning Java 8 Games Development]

Chapter 15 ■ Implementing Game Audio Assets: Using the JavaFX AudioClip Class Audio Sequencing Engine
Figure 15-14. Instantiate and load the URL object, and then use it inside of the iSound0 AudioClip object instantiation
The second line of code, interestingly, uses the .toString() method call, which converts this URL object right back
into a String object, which is required to load the AudioClip() constructor method with the audio asset URL. You may
be thinking: why not use iSound0 = new AudioClip("/leftmono"); ? You can try this, however, you’ll have to “hard
code” the directory, using “file:/Users/users/MyDocuments/NetBeansProjects/InvinciBagel/src/leftmono.wav.”
I used the URL object approach so that you will be able to reference this audio file from the inside of the JAR file,
instead of using the approach shown above that requires an “absolute” location on a hard disk drive. Therefore, this
getClass().getResource() method chain is adding “relative” reference data into this URL object. Your InvinciBagel
class needs this relative reference data to be able to reference your WAV audio resource files from the inside of your
NetBeans 8 project InvinciBagel/src folder, as well as from the inside of your JAR file for your Java 8 game application.
Next, use your trusty programmer’s shortcut, and copy and paste these two lines of code five more times
underneath themselves, which is the easy way to create your other five AudioClip objects. Change the zero on both
iAudioFile0 and iSound0 to iAudioFile1 through iAudioFile5 and iSound1 through iSound5 respectively. Then change
the WAV audio file name reference to rightmono.wav, upmono.wav, downmono.wav, wmono.wav and smono.wav
respectively. Your completed loadAudioAssets() method should then look like the following Java method body, which
is also shown in Figure 15-15:
private void loadAudioAssets() {
iAudioFile0 = getClass().getResource("/leftmono.wav");
iSound0 = new AudioClip(iAudioFile0.toString());
iAudioFile1 = getClass().getResource("/rightmono.wav");
iSound1 = new AudioClip(iAudioFile1.toString());
iAudioFile2 = getClass().getResource("/upmono.wav");
iSound2 = new AudioClip(iAudioFile2.toString());
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