5.5 The SemiDirectTuttle class

The SemiDirectTuttle class is responsible for constructing the interface by creating the Tuttle and the SemiDirectTuttleInterface instances, together with a feedback Panel as used in the TuttleTest applet in the previous chapter, and subsequently responding the ActionEvents which are dispatched to it from the TuttleButtons. The implementation of this class as far as the end of its init() action is as follows.

0001  // Filename SemiDirectTuttle.java. 0002  // Supplies a semi-direct interface the Tuttle class 0003  // using TuttleButtons. 0004  // 0005  // Written for Java Interface book chapter 5. 0006  // Fintan Culwin, v 0.2, August 1997. 0007   0008  package SemiDirectTuttle; 0009   0010  import java.awt.*; 0011  import java.applet.*; 0012  import java.awt.event.*; 0013   0014  import Tuttles.Tuttle; 0015  import SemiDirectTuttleInterface; 0016   0017  public class SemiDirectTuttle extends    Applet  0018                                implements ActionListener { 0019   0020  private Label  feedbackLabel; 0021  private Tuttle theTuttle; 0022  private Panel  feedbackPanel; 0023    0024     public void init() {  0025      0026     Panel     tuttlePanel = new Panel();  0027     SemiDirectTuttleInterface theInterface;   0028 0029        this.setFont( new Font( "TimesRoman", Font.PLAIN, 14)); 0030        feedbackLabel = new Label(); 0031        feedbackPanel = new Panel(); 0032        feedbackPanel.add( feedbackLabel); 0033         0034        theTuttle = new Tuttle( this, 500, 500);             0035        tuttlePanel.add( theTuttle);  0036         0037        theInterface  = new SemiDirectTuttleInterface( this); 0038   0039        this.setLayout( new BorderLayout()); 0040        this.add( feedbackPanel, "North"); 0041        this.add( tuttlePanel,   "Center");      0042        this.add( theInterface,  "South"); 0043         0044        this.feedback(); 0045     } // End init.

The init() action commences, on line 0029, by specifying the Font which will be inherited by the feedbackLabel and used to display the Tuttle's status information. It continues, on lines 0030 to 0032, by constructing the feedbackLabel and adding it to the feedbackPanel.

On lines 0034 and 0035, the Tuttle instance, theTuttle, is then constructed specifying a 500 by 500 pixel drawing area and is added to its Panel. Line 0037 constructs the SemiDirectTuttleInterface, theInterface, passing as its argument the identity of the SemiDirectTuttle applet (this) which is currently being constructed.

Having prepared the three parts of the interface these are added in the appropriate BorderLayout locations of the Applet Panel, to provide the complete interface shown in Figure 5.4. The last action of the init() action is to call the SemiDirectTuttle's private feedback() action to cause the Tuttle's initial status to be shown when the interface is first presented to the user.

As the SemiDirectTuttle class states that it implements the ActionListener interface, it has to implement an actionPerformed() action, as follows.

0048     public void actionPerformed( ActionEvent event) {  0049   0050     String theCommand = event.getActionCommand(); 0051   0052        if ( theCommand.equals( "Forwards")) {  0053           theTuttle.forward( 25); 0054        } else if ( theCommand.equals( "Backwards")) {  0055           theTuttle.backward( 25); 0056        } else if ( theCommand.equals( "Turn left")) {  0057           theTuttle.turnLeft( 15); ----        Other if branches omitted. 0094        } // End if. 0095         0096        this.feedback();        0097     } // End actionPerformed.

The first stage of this action, on line 0050, is to retrieve the theCommand String from the event dispatched to it from the SemiDirectTuttleInterface. A 21 way if/ else if structure then provides a branch for each possible commandString associated with each of the 21 TuttleButtons; calling the appropriate theTuttle action and passing the appropriate argument, if required.

For example, if the user were to press the turnLeft button the ActionEvent generated would contain the commandString "Turn left". This would cause the condition on line 0056 to evaluate true and the turnLeft() action of theTuttle would be called, on line 0057, causing the tuttle to turn 15o to the left. Likewise pressing the forwardButton would result in the tuttle moving 25 steps forward when theTuttle's forward() action is called on line 0053. Unfortunately this interface does not allow the user any choice in the amounts of turn or movement which are associated with the buttons.

The final stage of the actionPerformed() action, on line 0096, is to call the feedback() action so that any changes in the Tuttle's status are reported back to the user. The implementation of this action is identical to that of the comparable action presented in the TuttleTest applet at the end of the last chapter and is presented here for the sake of completeness.

0100     private void feedback() {     0101        feedbackLabel.setText( theTuttle.getDetails()); 0102        feedbackPanel.doLayout(); 0103     } // End feedback. 0104  } // End SemiDirectTuttle.

This completes the SemiDirectTuttle implementation, details of how to obtain the parts of the source code omitted for the sake of brevity can be found at the start of Appendix B.

 


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Summary of Chapter 5

5.4 The SemiDirectTuttleInterface class




A Java GUI programmer's primer
Java GUI Programmers Primer, A
ISBN: 0139088490
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 1998
Pages: 85
Authors: Fintan Culwin

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