[java] Threads

Basically, yes, since your program begins life with a single thread which can spawn new threads and so on....

This is in fact my problem;

I create a JFrame where I just added a yellow label to the content pane, to work as a game presentation screen…
There’s also a JMenu too, where the user must click “Start” (a JmenuItem) to play the game…
That’s the point: selecting Start in the Menu will make this:

- Create a new JPanel object
- Create an instance of the GameArea class
- Add the gameArea object to the JPanel
- Set the JPanel as the content pane of the JFrame

It’s important to say that the GameArea extends JComponent and implements the Runnable interface, so in some moment it would be a good idea to create a Thread, and make it run…My doubt is if this is possible?
Help me please!!

Thanks for all!!

Well I get your problem but why in hell are you tring to Thread this?
Is it a RTS, RPG or FPS game? But if you like Threads you can do this. But I
don't know what for... Can you tell me?
I might have misunderstood the context.

You don't need to give GameArea a Runnable Interface.
Just create a thread that affects GameArea.
Its not a good idea to make a main class also a thread or whatever.

Just create a class lets ,say GameThread, like this:



Hope this helps.

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Original post by Last Attacker You don't need to give GameArea a Runnable Interface. Just create a thread that affects GameArea. Its not a good idea to make a main class also a thread or whatever.

Why not? I have never had a problem doing that. If you do it in a separate class, then you need to expose a lot more functionality than you might want to.

Hello you people!!

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Is it a RTS, RPG or FPS game?

Hey, hold your horses man!! It’s just a 2D sprites based game, a plagiarism of the Atari’s Tennis game, I don’t remember the real name, it’s a classical, very old…

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…why in hell are you trying to Thread this?

Although it’s a simple game, I think it’s nice and necessary to create a thread to control de frps.
My paint method, with an off screen implementation is in this class I mentioned…
But, as Last Attacker says:

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Just create a thread that affects GameArea.

I got it! I create a thread that invokes the paint method, calling repaint() ,
20 times per second, so 20 frps!

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I might have misunderstood the context

To be honest I think that I made a confusion to explain my problem, well I’m not a fluent English speaker, and neither writer!!
But some problems were solved and I thank you all!!
I restart my work and now I have to look for the error in the old version…
When I find it, I’ll post here, OK?

Thanks everybody!! See ya!!

just a note, i think java uses microthreads (fibers) and fibers arent like other threads like windowsthreads o pthreads.

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/essential/threads/priority.html