I am working on a simple game which requires 1 player (the square) and some enemies that spawn randomly inside the play-area. I am running into an issue currently, because when I run my program, pressing any arrow key will repaint not only the player's new location, but it will also re-spawn all the enemies into the new locations.
I have gone through my code a few times and I am still stumped as to why this is happening. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
P.S. I am not a very experienced programmer, so some of this code may not be as efficient as possible and some things may be incorrect; feel free to point out any errors besides the issue at hand. Thanks!
Main Class
public class Eat {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// Creating the main frame
JFrame main = new JFrame("Eat 'Em All - Version 1.0.2");
main.setSize(497, 599);
main.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
main.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
main.setResizable(false);
// Colours and borders
Border areaBorder = new LineBorder(Color.LIGHT_GRAY, 3);
// Creating main JPanel
JPanel area = new JPanel();
area.setLayout(new BoxLayout(area, BoxLayout.PAGE_AXIS));
area.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
main.setContentPane(area);
// Creating the drawing/image/player
DrawPlayer player = new DrawPlayer();
player.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(497, 539));
player.setOpaque(false);
// Enemies
DrawEnemy enemy = new DrawEnemy();
enemy.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(497, 539));
enemy.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
// Creating the control panel for buttons, etc
JPanel control = new JPanel();
control.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(497, 60));
control.setLayout(new GridLayout(1, 2, 0, 0));
control.setBorder(areaBorder);
JLabel welcome = new JLabel(" Welcome to Eat 'Em All |--| Press 'Start'");
JButton start = new JButton("Start");
// Adding it all to the frame
main.add(enemy);
enemy.add(player);
control.add(welcome);
control.add(start);
area.add(control);
// Adding keylistener and making button false
player.addKeyListener(player);
player.setFocusable(true);
start.setFocusable(false);
enemy.setFocusable(false);
// Bring frame to front and visible
main.toFront();
main.setVisible(true);
System.out.println(player.getWidth() / 2);
System.out.println(player.getHeight() / 2);
}
}
Drawing Player Class
public class DrawPlayer extends JPanel implements KeyListener {
long xPosition = 0;
long yPosition = 0;
public void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
super.paintComponent(g);
// Making loop to get points and move it
// Center of area is x: 245 y: 255
int xPoints[] = {235, 255, 255, 235, 235, 255};
int yPoints[] = {265, 265, 245, 245, 265, 245};
for (int i = 0; i < xPoints.length; i++) {
xPoints[i] += xPosition;
yPoints[i] += yPosition;
}
g.setColor(Color.BLUE);
g.drawPolygon(xPoints, yPoints, xPoints.length);
}
public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {
switch (e.getKeyCode()) {
case KeyEvent.VK_DOWN:
if (yPosition == 245) {
yPosition -= 5;
} else {
yPosition += 5;
}
break;
case KeyEvent.VK_UP:
if (yPosition == -245) {
yPosition += 5;
} else {
yPosition -= 5;
}
break;
case KeyEvent.VK_LEFT:
if (xPosition == -235) {
xPosition += 5;
} else {
xPosition -= 5;
}
break;
case KeyEvent.VK_RIGHT:
if (xPosition == 235) {
xPosition -= 5;
} else {
xPosition += 5;
}
break;
}
repaint();
}
public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e) {
}
public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e) {
}
}
Drawing Enemies Class
public class DrawEnemy extends JPanel {
public void paintComponent(Graphics f) {
super.paintComponent(f);
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++ ){
f.setColor(Color.RED);
f.drawOval((int)(Math.random() * ((440 - 0) + 0) + 0), (int)(Math.random() * ((500 - 0) + 0) + 0), 50, 50);
}
}
}
Your have a problem here:
public void paintComponent(Graphics f) {
super.paintComponent(f);
for (int i = 0; i < 10; i++ ){
f.setColor(Color.RED);
f.drawOval((int)(Math.random() * ((440 - 0) + 0) + 0), (int)(Math.random() * ((500 - 0) + 0) + 0), 50, 50);
}
}
You've got program logic inside of a painting method, something you should never do, since you never have full control over when or even if a painting method will be called. The solution, get the randomization out of the paintComponent method and into its own separate method, one that you call if and only if you want to randomize the enemies, and not every time you repaint.
Other issues:
move() method, perhaps a collision(Player p) method.