class myClass2 extends myClass1: Same name Methods

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#1

Hi there,

I am trying to programm a Pong game with the shakebox.org tutorial.

public class BasicGame extends GLPong

I am still quite new to Java but I understand that BasicGame inherrits all methods and attributes from the GLPong class.

Both classes have an init method. In the BasicGame init-method I use the LWJGL Object Keyboard but Eclipse outputs “Unhandled exception type LWJGLException”. Now in the same class in a method called cleanup I use the Keyboard method destroy and that works fine.
Why?
What exact effect has the extention on the methods?

#2

The aim of those tutorials was to keep the things simple.

By creating a BasicGame class that handle all the LWJGL initialization stuff, making a LWJGL game become easier : you just have to extends the BasicGame class. By the way, this class is only designed to create small games.

Oh, and it’s the GLPong class that extends BasicGame :wink:

public class GLPong extends BasicGame

About the keyboard problem, it’s a bit strange… What version of LWJGL are you using ? Have you tried to run the precompiled classes ?

Chman