Help with tile based movement

Newbie & Debugging Questions
#1

Hi guys, I am new here on the Java Gaming forums and could use a little help.

I am programming a game in LWJGL and I need help achieving tiled based moving. I obviously don’t want it just to jump a tile’s width, but as a smooth movement to the next tile (like Pokemon). I tried experimenting with some stuff and here is what I came up with.


if (Keyboard.isKeyDown(Keyboard.KEY_UP)) {
	Keyboard.destroy();
	for (int x = 0; x < 32; x += 4) { player.setY(player.getY() - 4); }
	try {
		Keyboard.create();
	} catch (LWJGLException e) {
		// TODO Auto-generated catch block
		e.printStackTrace();
	}
}

This kind of works, but the problem is it just jumps the character to the next tile instead of a smooth movement. In theory, this seems like it should work because it moves it 4 pixels 8 times. I am not quite sure what I am doing wrong here.

Also, does Keyboard.destroy() disable the keyboard? I need something to disable movement of the character so you can’t interrupt the movement.