Computer Science 252
Problem Solving with Java

Spring 2014, The College of Saint Rose

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FallingBallButtons Demo

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FallingBallButtons BlueJ Project

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FallingBallButtons Source Code

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FallingBallButtons.java

import objectdraw.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import javax.swing.JButton;

/*
 * Example FallingBallButtons: adding Swing JButtons to the
 * falling ball.
 *
 * Jim Teresco, The College of Saint Rose, Fall 2013
 * Based on example from Williams College CS 134.
 *
 * $Id: FallingBallButtons.java 2221 2013-10-22 02:48:35Z terescoj $
 */

// First, note above the extra import statements for additional Java API
// classes and interfaces we are using here.

// Now, notice that we have "implements ActionListener" specified on our
// WindowController class.  More on that below.
public class FallingBallButtons extends WindowController implements ActionListener {
    private static final int SLOW_SPEED = 2;
    private static final int MEDIUM_SPEED = 5;
    private static final int FAST_SPEED = 10;

    // JButtons to create falling balls of different speeds
    private JButton slowButton, mediumButton, fastButton;

    public void begin() {
        
        // making the canvas extra big since we're placing some big
        // buttons along the sides and bottom soon.
        setSize(600, 600);
        
        // First, we need to ask our WindowController class for
        // the container that holds all of its GUI components.
        // Until now, we have had just a DrawingCanvas, referred
        // to as canvas.  But we'll be adding more to it.
        Container contentPane = getContentPane();

        // next, we'll create some buttons and add them to our
        // content pane.  Note that JButton constructor just takes
        // one parameter - the text to be displayed within the 
        // button.  We then add each to the content pane in one
        // of the four cardinal directions.
        
        // slow button in the west (left)
        slowButton = new JButton("Drop Slow Ball");
        contentPane.add(slowButton, BorderLayout.WEST);

        // medium button in the south (bottom)
        mediumButton = new JButton("Drop Medium Ball");
        contentPane.add(mediumButton, BorderLayout.SOUTH);

        // fast button in the east (right)
        fastButton = new JButton("Drop Fast Ball");
        contentPane.add(fastButton, BorderLayout.EAST);

        // now, if we want our program to react when someone pushes
        // one of these buttons, we need to tell it which class
        // has an actionPerformed method to be called when that button
        // is pressed.  We use "this" to indicate our current class,
        // as it has such an actionPerformed method, which we indicate
        // to Java by implementing the ActionListener interface in the
        // class header.
        slowButton.addActionListener(this);
        mediumButton.addActionListener(this);
        fastButton.addActionListener(this);

        // put at end of all methods that change the layout
        contentPane.validate();
    }

    // This is the actionPerformed method, which we promised would be
    // implemented in this class when we specified "implements
    // ActionListener" in the class header.  This method will be called
    // each time one of our three buttons is pressed.  It is an event
    // handler just like our onMouse* methods, but takes a different
    // parameter: an ActionEvent object that tells us information about
    // the event that triggered this method call.
    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
        
        double speed;
        
        // Since this same actionPerformed method would be called 
        // for a click on any of our three buttons, we need to check
        // which one it was by comparing the return of our ActionEvent's
        // getSource method with the JButton references we remembered
        // when we created them in the begin method.
        if (e.getSource() == slowButton) {
            speed = SLOW_SPEED;
        } 
        else if (e.getSource() == mediumButton) {
            speed = MEDIUM_SPEED;
        } 
        else {
            speed = FAST_SPEED;
        }
        new Ball(new Location(200, 0), speed, canvas);
    }
}

Ball.java

import objectdraw.*;
import java.awt.*;

/*
/*
 * Example FallingBallUglyButtons: 
 * A Ball that will drop to the bottom of the canvas.
 *
 * Jim Teresco, The College of Saint Rose, Fall 2013
 *
 * $Id: Ball.java 2221 2013-10-22 02:48:35Z terescoj $
 */

public class Ball extends ActiveObject {
    private static final int BALL_SIZE = 30;
    private static final int PAUSE_TIME = 30;

    // The representation of the ball on the screen
    private FilledOval ball;

    // The bottom of the playing area
    private int bottomHeight;

    private double ySpeed;

    // Construct a new Ball with the given starting location and y velocity.
    public Ball(Location point, double speed, DrawingCanvas aCanvas) {
        ball = new FilledOval(point, BALL_SIZE, BALL_SIZE, aCanvas);
        ySpeed = speed;
        bottomHeight = aCanvas.getHeight();
        start();
    }

    public void run() {
        while (ball.getY() < bottomHeight) {
            ball.move(0, ySpeed);
            pause(PAUSE_TIME);
        }
        ball.removeFromCanvas();
    }
}