[JAVA][Beginning Java 8 Games Development]

Chapter 17 ■ Enhancing Game Play: Creating a Scoring Engine, Adding Treasure and an Enemy Auto-Attack Engine
Creating the Score UI Design: Text and Font Objects
The first thing that we need to do to implement a display for our scoring engine is to open the InvinciBagel.java tab in
NetBeans, and add an integer variable to hold a numeric score accumulation, and a Text UI element object, to display
the score on the bottom of the screen, alongside our other UI elements. The Text class in JavaFX is used to work with
text elements in your games, and even has its own javafx.scene.text package, because text is an important element in
applications. The integer data type allows your game players to score well into the billions of points, so this should be
adequate for holding any magnitude of numeric score your game player can rack up. We will place these Java variable
and object declarations, which can be seen highlighted in Figure 17-1, at the very top of the InvinciBagel.java class,
right after the WIDTH and HEIGHT constant declarations, and the Java code should look like the following:
int gameScore = 0;
Text scoreText;
Figure 17-1. Add an integer variable named gameScore and initialize it to 0, then add a Text object named scoreText
Mouse-over the wavy red error highlighting, and click next to the line of code containing this error, to select it
(which is shown using a light blue color). Next, use an Alt-Enter work process to bring up the error resolution helper
pop-up, shown at the bottom of Figure 17-1, and double-click on the “Add import for javafx.scene.text.Text” option to
have NetBeans write this Text class import statement for you.
Now we are ready to open the .createSplashScreenNodes() method, and instantiate this Text object named
scoreText, using a Java new keyword and the Text() constructor method. After you do this, you can call the .setText()
method, and reference the gameScore integer, using the String.valueOf() method, as well as positioning it in your UI
layout design, using the .setLayoutX() and .setLayoutX() methods, using the following Java code shown in Figure 17-2:
scoreText = new Text();
scoreText.setText(String.valueOf(gameScore));
scoreText.setLayoutY(365);
scoreText.setLayoutX(565);
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