[JAVA][Beginning Java 8 Games Development]

Chapter 17 ■ Enhancing Game Play: Creating a Scoring Engine, Adding Treasure and an Enemy Auto-Attack Engine
The next step in the work process is to “wire” the scoreText Text object into the scoreFont Font object using the
.setFont() method, which is called off of the scoreText object and sets the Text object to utilize the scoreFont Font
object using the following code, which is shown in the bottom part of Figure 17-5. You can also use a .setFill() method
called off of the scoreText Text object to set the color of the Text object; for now, we will use a Color.BLACK constant.
scoreText.setFont(scoreFont);
scoreText.setFill(Color.BLACK);
Now we can test the scoreText Text object placement, and refine our X,Y screen location values, so that the score
is right next to the HBox UI Button bank. I found that I had to move the Y location down twenty pixels to a pixel
location of 385, while I had to move the X location five pixels to the right, to a pixel location of 445, as is shown in
Figure 17-6, in the left half of the screen shot, in the bottom right of the InvinciBagel game, next to the Legal Button.
Figure 17-6. Test the scoreText and scoreFont objects using the Run ➤ Project work process to refine their placement
We will be adding a Text object label that says “SCORE:” in the next section of the chapter to label our score for
the player. The result of this second round of coding is shown in the right half of Figure 17-6, at the bottom right.
Creating a SCORE Label: Adding the Second Text Object
Instead of just having a number on the right side of the UI Button bank (HBox), let’s add a Text label that says SCORE:
to the front of the scoreText Text object. We will create a scoreLabel Text object and use the same Font object that
we created in the previous section to style that Text object. I am going to change the numeric part of the score text to
be blue, using the scoreText.setFill(Color.BLUE); Java statement, and make the SCORE: label black, using the
following Java code, which can also be seen in Figure 17-7:
scoreText.setFill(Color.BLUE);
scoreLabel = new Text();
scoreLabel.setText("SCORE:");
scoreLabel.setLayoutY(385);
scoreLabel.setLayoutX(445);
scoreLabel.setFont(scoreFont);
scoreLabel.setFill(Color.BLACK);
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