Snood In JAVA

Oh yeah, and how do I capture the mouse and hold it inside the bounds of my game until the player hits ''P'' ? can i use a keypress event? and would I constantly read for the mouse coordinates ina mouse motion event? and if the coordinates exeed the bounds of my ''box'' I change the x to the boundary?

i dunno, Its late.
peace.

use implements MouseMotionListener,KeyListener

why do u want to hold the mouse inside your game?!


make me sick!!

because the mouse controls the angle of the gun, and if the mouse leaves the window, the gun is harder to aim. Having them hit ''p'' to pause the game and give back the mouse is how www.snood.com does it. I really like the way he''s implemented it.

Oh, that was a great game... I remember those days... the only flaw was that the guy was too nice, he let you do too much without paying...

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So,
I think I''ve figured out that I need a 2d array. this will represent the board.

Secondly, I think I''ll calculate the desitnation of the snood shot from the gun in real time by using the gun angle to determine the next available open spot in the 2d array.
I''ll simply determine the angle

but for chains of snoods.
Should I implement another array and store my known chains in there? or should I just calculate this real time as well. with an isInAChain variable? I''m kinda confused as how to implement this.

and for the hanging snoods.
same thing? another collection? this is in JAVA so I really would like to be as efficeint as possible in my code-crunching.

graphics seem to be the easy part, once I have the game functioning.

And for the levels. should I store the available levels in a text file that I read with a tokenizer? that seems to be the most accepted format.

fun fun fun!

-wameku.