[Java] Draw something more than once?

It's because you only have it set to update when space is held. From my knowledge you would want to have a state for the bullet being checked to see if it's still alive. If it's still alive update its position, if not remove it. I think that's right.

There's a couple issues here. If your bullet is its own class, with its own update method, you need to call that method every tick on every bullet, not just when the space bar key is pressed. One way to achieve this would be to maintain an array of all bullets currently created. Then iterate through that array and call each bullet's update method every tick. This also means you should set the velocity as a property of the bullet object.

a few pointers to get you on the right track:

1) You are abusing static. (The only thing in your code that should be static is main, the rest shouldn't be static imo) (You don't have a bullet object, just a single global bulletx,bullety variable pair)
a static class can not be instantiated and its public members are effectivly globals. (Make a non static bullet class, create an array of bullets(in main) and add a new bullet to that array when you fire, update and draw all bullets in that array in the normal game loop.

2) You shouldn't load the image file when you shoot the bullet (loading images is slow so load them before the game starts)

I've taken a look at your code and seems that it needs bit reorganizing. Games have a main loop that consist of few functions like input (could be user or/and network), logic, and draw.Each of them should handle specifically what it says. Meaning that in the input function you would only do things that have to do with input, logic would only handle the logic that needs to be run each frame and draw should only be drawing the game object on to your canvas.

What you have done is putting the draw function of the bullet inside your (logic/input) function which not the way to go. Move the draw function of the bullet to where you draw the ship. I suppose you did this with the idea that the bullet would only be displayed when you would press a key.

My advice to you is try to improve your OO by moving the ship and the bullet to a separate class file and like SimonForsman said don't use static you have noneed for this at this point.

and like SimonForsman said don't use static you have noneed for this at this point.

Thanks for your help! And I only used static because eclipse was yelling at me, and it wouldn't work unless I put a static behind everything

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and like SimonForsman said don't use static you have noneed for this at this point.

Thanks for your help! And I only used static because eclipse was yelling at me, and it wouldn't work unless I put a static behind everything
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Thats usually because you didn't instantiate the class before trying to use it.

If you have a non static class named Bullet you use it by doing:

Bullet myBullet = new Bullet(ship.x,ship.y,ship.direction); //create a new bullet instance at the ships position heading in the direction the ship is facing.

you can create as many bullets as you want this way and each bullet will get its own instance of the member variables you've defined in the Bullet class, you can also store the bullets in a Vector or List instead of a variable(which helps if you want lots of them). ( Vector bullets = new Vector();
bullets.push_back(new Bullet(ship.x,ship.y,ship.direction); //create a bullet and add it to the bullets vector.

myBullet.update(); //update the bullet instance we just created //this method should move the bullet.
myBullet.draw(); //draw the bullet we just created (normally you don't want the bullet to render itself but in this case its a bit overkill to create a proper renderer)
or if you use a vector:
for (Bullet b : bullets) {
b.update();
b.draw();
} //updates and draws all bullets
Just remove the bullets from the vector when you want to destroy them, with vectors its fastest to remove from the back, with Lists it doesn't really matter that much. (You can swap the bullet you want to remove with the last bullet in the vector before removing to speed things up if necessary)

static classes are not objects, they're effectivly just a collection of global functions and variables, (in languages such as C++ you use namespaces for this instead) and in Java they are only really useful to group support functions in a logical way.

Thanks a ton!

Okay, now i've taken all of that into consideration, but I still have a few problems. Now, when I go to draw the bullet, it just turns the ship purple instead of drawing a rectangle to the screen. Here is my code. (I know that i am still drawing the rectangle only when i hit space, I'm just doing it for now).

import static org.lwjgl.opengl.GL11.*;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Random;
import org.lwjgl.input.Mouse;
import org.lwjgl.input.Keyboard;
import org.lwjgl.opengl.*;
import org.lwjgl.*;
import org.newdawn.slick.opengl.Texture;
import org.newdawn.slick.opengl.TextureLoader;
import org.newdawn.slick.util.ResourceLoader;
public class Move {
//make the screen width and height values public
public int SCREENWIDTH = 640, SCREENHEIGHT = 480;
private boolean isRunning = true;
private Texture spaceShip;
public int inx = 100;
public SetShip myShip = new SetShip();
public Bullet myBullet = new Bullet();
public int x = myShip.ShipXStart;
public int y = myShip.ShipYStart;

public Move(){
//Set up the display
try{
Display.setDisplayMode(new DisplayMode(SCREENWIDTH, SCREENHEIGHT));
Display.setTitle("Space Invaders");
Display.create();
} catch (LWJGLException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}





glEnable(GL_BLEND);
glBlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);

glMatrixMode(GL_PROJECTION);
glLoadIdentity();
glOrtho(0, 640, 480, 0, 1, -1);
glMatrixMode(GL_MODELVIEW);
glEnable(GL_TEXTURE_2D);

myShip.init();

//main game loop
while (isRunning){
glClear(GL_COLOR_BUFFER_BIT);
myShip.draw();
input();


Display.update();
Display.sync(60);

if(Display.isCloseRequested()){
isRunning = false;
Display.destroy();
System.exit(0);
}
}
Display.destroy();


}

private void input() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
if (Keyboard.isKeyDown(Keyboard.KEY_LEFT)){
inx = -5;
myShip.update(inx);
}
if (Keyboard.isKeyDown(Keyboard.KEY_RIGHT)){
inx = 5;
myShip.update(inx);
}
if (Keyboard.isKeyDown(Keyboard.KEY_SPACE)){
myBullet.update(10, 20);
myBullet.draw();
}
}
private Texture loadTexture(String key) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
try{
return TextureLoader.getTexture("PNG", new FileInputStream(new File("img/" + key + ".png")));
} catch (FileNotFoundException e){
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}

public class SetShip{
public int ShipXStart = 100, ShipYStart = 400;
//initialize the ship
void init(){
//store the image in a texture
//load the image
try {

spaceShip = TextureLoader.getTexture("PNG", new FileInputStream(new File("img/spaceship.png")));
} catch (FileNotFoundException e){
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}



}


void update(int inx){
ShipXStart += inx;
}

void draw(){


spaceShip.bind();

glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glTexCoord2f(0, 0);
glVertex2f(ShipXStart, ShipYStart);
glTexCoord2f(1, 0);
glVertex2f(ShipXStart + 200, ShipYStart);
glTexCoord2f(1, 1);
glVertex2f(ShipXStart + 200, ShipYStart + 100);
glTexCoord2f(0, 1);
glVertex2f(ShipXStart, ShipYStart + 100);
glEnd();
}


}
private static class Bullet{
//set up the variables
public int x, y; //set the starting x and y for the bullets

void update(int dx, int dy){
x += dx;
y += dy;
}

void draw(){
glColor3f(1.0f,0f,1.0f);
glBegin(GL_QUADS);
glVertex2i(50, 50);
glVertex2i(100, 100);
glVertex2i(50, 100);
glVertex2i(100, 100);
glEnd();
}

}

public static void main(String[] args) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
new Move();
}

}

Maybe a picture to see exactly what's wrong?

Maybe a picture to see exactly what's wrong?

Sorry.

Before: http://i.imgur.com/tsy2M.png

After: http://i.imgur.com/DflSe.png

Okay i could totally be wrong on this, but isn't the color globally used? So once you change it to purple for the bullet it changes it when you draw the ship? It is totally possible that i am wrong on this.

Okay i could totally be wrong on this, but isn't the color globally used? So once you change it to purple for the bullet it changes it when you draw the ship? It is totally possible that i am wrong on this.

That is correct, within the context.
adding a glColor3f(1.0f,1.0f,1.0f); to the top of the render ship function would solve this.


Also for the op,

don't pass dx,dy to the bullets update method(this will require you to track the direction of the bullets separatly which isn't a good idea), pass it to the constructor and add dx,dy as private member variables. (This way your bullet can keep track of its own direction)
to add a constructor that sets the direction of the bullet you add (in the Bullet class):

private float dx,dy;
public Bullet(float dx, float dy, etc) {
this.dx = dx;
this.dy = dy;
}

private float dx,dy;
public Bullet(float dx, float dy, etc) {
this.dx = dx;
this.dy = dy;
}

Okay, so instead of calling update when I hit space, I would do Bullet(dx, dy)?

Try it, see if it works.