Hey everyone!

I was bored so I wanted to put my time to good use and practice Java - exercise the mind a little.
Anyway, on to the good stuff!! ~

I created a project called Adventure. There are 3 classes, Actions, Hero, and Adventure.
Actions - its going to have methods like Open Chest, Moving around, etc.
Hero - creates the heroes starting stats and will control his "Leveling Up" so-to-speak. stat upgrades, etc.
Adventure - the main class of my program. Has public static void main(String []args)

I only just started but I'll show a snippet of what I have.

Only thing I have in Adventure so far.

import java.util.*;

This is what I have of my Hero class so far


Everything compiles and works so far, but I'm curious what will happen when I want hero to run some methods from the Actions class, or any other class I create?

Since Hero hero = new Hero(); creates an instance of the hero class, can I do a call hero.MethodFromActionsClass(); ??

I'm going to be stuck if that doesnt work. Thank you.


can you please explain to me what is wrong with that if it DOESN'T work?

you don't need to call method like:

hero.methodFromOtherClass();

when you write methods in the Action class, make them public and static. To call them, you simply need to say:

methodFromActionClass();

This should be OK as long as you don't have more that one player at a time because anything you find or pick up will go into the only inventory anyway.

WOW! Can I really just do method();

without a xxxxxx.method(); ??

Ive been thru many semesters of java at college already and never knew I could do that x_x


Thanks so much. I'll try it out.


SO what you're saying is that I have to make it.





This is legal? What if I want something to happen to "hero" within that method? Is that legal?

well, you'd need a return type or a void return type for your code to compile. Also, you'd need to have the two files saved in the same folder or make action part of a package that hero imports. The latter is more traditional way to handle this. Note: you may have to call it as:



the problem with the sample method that you gave is that it does not apply to more than one object: i.e loot(chest) vs. loot(body)

This post has been edited by potator: 8 Feb, 2008 - 02:03 PM

I just made a quick Loot() method in the Actions class. I just had it print a line and it worked! Actions.Loot();

Awesome thanks a lot!

I have a question - since this is going to be a project of mine, how would you create an inventory..?

it seems rather complex. An array starting like [10] for a slot 0-9, with each slot as a reference to an item or something?


or String slot1 = xxxxx;
String slot2 = xxxxx;
String slot3 = xxxxx;


This second method seems awful because it just names something, it doesnt actually have an item property. Yikes!

Any ideas? Thanks so much