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eekie, on 10 August 2012 - 07:12 AM, said:

macosxnerd101, on 09 August 2012 - 09:07 AM, said:

This is probably a yellow warning, rather than a red error. Some IDEs (note that Eclipse is NOT a compiler) complain about the serialVersionUID. You can add one as prompted or have your IDE ignore it.

Thanks for the information. Adding in the serialVersionUID seemed to resolve the problem.

I have done all of this also, but I still get a black screen in my browser (Firefox) with a grey box saying applet initialized. Any ideas? Thanks

[evanf45]

Ok so have programmed all of it but when I try to compile it it says num expected .
Please help I have tried to compile it using netbeans and javac

[Mike+9]

Hi and first of all thank you for this tutorial. I understood it but after trying to write it 2 times and even just using copy & paste for the code the game still doesn't seem to load up, in Chromium or applet viewer in Eclipse. I'm not getting any errors at all, it just doesn't show up anything.

I also trie dthe version already made on this site here and I get the same problem. Any ideea why it is not working?

[Mike+9]

Mike+9, on 30 August 2012 - 03:05 AM, said:

Hi and first of all thank you for this tutorial. I understood it but after trying to write it 2 times and even just using copy & paste for the code the game still doesn't seem to load up, in Chromium or applet viewer in Eclipse. I'm not getting any errors at all, it just doesn't show up anything.

I also trie dthe version already made on this site here and I get the same problem. Any ideea why it is not working?

Never mind, I fixed it. It was because of the java plugin.

[evanf45]

when ever i try to compile PaddleLeft.java, PaddleRight.java, Ball.java with javac it says
invalid flag: PaddleLeft.java
usage: javac <options> <source files>
use -help for a list of possible options.

Please help

[drenfro87]

OK so i have coded the program to exactly what he has and it compiles all of the classes fine. when i try and run the main class in ntextpad i get a white applet window with loading in the bottom left hand corner. When i try and run it in netbeans i get no main class found and when i try and run it in the html file i get pongMain: Unsupported major.minor version 51.0 . I am running it in chrome that is up to date and i have updated my java plug in to the most current version. I am a student and this is my first attempt at a game and my first attempt at a coded GUI. I made one once but it was using jFrame. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!!

[doxyJava]

Trying this , hope it will work.Thanks a lot for this tutorial!

[ajewers]

sabretooth, on 03 December 2011 - 06:17 AM, said:

"you have finished your first Game Java applet in a very professionally accepted and methodical way"

Please tell me you are joking.

System resource use is amazingly high due to that while loop which does not even need to be there.
The timer is already polling every 15ms, you don't need the while loop also.

I suggest making the Timer an instance variable and ending the start method at time.start();

This way your actionPerformed can look like this:

  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent arg0) 
            {
                if(pRight.getScore() == 10)
                 {
                    time.stop();
                    currentTime = System.currentTimeMillis() - currentTime;
                 }
                 else
                 {
	         //moves the ball
	         ball.move();
	         //lines the computer paddle up with the ball
	         pRight.setPos(ball.getY() - 35);
	         //checks the ball for a collision
	         checkCollision();
                 }


	         //repaints the applet
	         repaint();
	    }

Much more efficient.

Is there any chance you could elaborate on this? Particularly on the 'making time an instance variable' part as the problem i'm having is that time.start() and time.stop() seem to need to be inside the same method