One Object / One Instance Variable - Different Values?
Feb 5, 2015
Let's pretend I'm working on an RPG. Like in all RPGs, there are items found all throughout the imaginary world. Each player and NPC can obtain an item. My question will concern those items.
In other words, I'd like to use instances of a class in multiple places of the code. Each instance will have its own, individual values of instance variables, with one obvious exception: itemQuantity should have a different value in playerInventory, npcInventory, etc. Also, I'd like a list of all items that can be found in the game. This list doesn't need itemQuantity at all.
class Items {
String itemName;
float itemWeight;
int itemQuantity;
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The question is: should I really make itemQuantity an instance variable of the Item class? It seems as though for each copy of the Item class I should create a separate copy with different value of itemQuantity, but that's not very efficient. Where is the error in my logic?
What's important is that there may be plenty items in a game and a player may be given power to create new items during the course of the game.
Alright, I have a JavaFX gui that is creating a new instance of data calculation to graph in a chart; however, the data is not updating each time the Platform.runLater() feature executes. Each time an event occurs, a new instance with the same variable name occurs. I use to get methods to retrieve the data I want, so shouldn't the values update each time the new instance is created? This is a very condensed version of what happens with the event, but this is what is not working correctly.
Event: solarPlot = new SolarTracker(); solarPlot.getElevation(); solarPlot.getAzimuth(); Class constructor : public SolarTracker() {
I am working on a project and it asks me to "Provide appropriate names and data types for each of the instance variables. Maintain two GVdie objects" under class fields. I am unsure as to what is being asked when asking for two objects as instance variables and how I would write that...
I'm just wondering why variables in interface can't be instance scope?
interface Test{ int a; }
And then
Test test = new TestImpl(); test.a=13;
Yes, it violates OO, but I don't see why this is not possible? Since interface is not an implementation, therefore it can;t have any instance scope variable. I can't find the correlation of interface being abstract and being able to hold instance scope variable. There's gotta be another reason. I'm just curious about any programmatic limitation, not deliberate design constraint. the example of programmatic limitation is like when Java forbids multiple inheritance since when different parents have the exact same method, then the child will have trouble determining which method to run at runtime.
I have been working on a program that is meant to use a class' instructions in a program to add a value to a variable, save it, and present it. This is my class
public class Car { //FIELDS private int yearModel; private String make; private int speed; //METHODS public Car(int carYearModel, String carMake)
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Whenever I call the accelerate method, a value of 5 is to be added to the speed variable. But whenever I call accelerate, it doesn't increase! I just don't understand why not. I've tried different renditions of adding 5 to speed and it doesn't quite work. I don't get any errors when I compile, just runtime, when it doesn't add 5 to speed.
So far in my assignment I have successfully opened a text file. However I am required to do more:
1) As each line of text (containing names and ages) is read a new Runner object is created with its instance variables set thus: ! (Runner class already created )!
- name : set directly set from the value in the file - agaGroup : can be worked out from the given ages: < 18 should be 'junior' > 55 should be 'senior' the rest should be 'standard'
2) the instance of Runner should be added to the list referenced by the instance variable runners.
I have used if statements to create the junior list, however I do not see the full list of names and ages in the variable runners as I am requested to.
I am sure there is a for loop involved somewhere but I do not know how to:
a) use the for loop in my method add a new Runner object with the variable mentioned.
I include the code I have done so far as a file - p.s I use Bluej.
public class MarathonAdmin { // instance variables private String runners; private String age;
I don't understand why the object reference variable 'a' cannot be recast from a thisA object reference to a thisB object reference.Is it the case that once a reference variable is linked to a particular object type then it cannot switch object types later on.I am facing the Java Associate Developer exam soon and I am just clearing up some issues in my head around object reference variable assignment,
class thisA {} class thisB extends thisA { String testString = "test";} public class CastQuestion2 { public static void main(String[] args) { thisA a = new thisA(); thisB b = new thisB();
I can't figure out where to create the StringHandler object. My code should take a string as input, then create StringHandler object ord with the string input. This should repeat until cancel is pressed, then ord should be sent to the Utskrift-method (a print method).
If I do like this, null is also sent to Utskrift. I dont want that to happen. If I put StringHandler last in the loop ord can not be resolved.
String text = ""; while (text != null){ text = showInputDialog(null, "Enter text:"); StringHandler ord = new StringHandler(text); if (text == null){ [Utskrift(ord.getNumber(), ord.getString(), ord.getWords()); break; } }
so, i was reading my java book and learning about objects and methods and it starts talking about Encapsulation and mentions that it's good practice to set instance variables as private and instead of accessing the instance variables directly, we should create a set method and get method to get and set the stuff we want to pass to the class containing the object...
for example, in this class, we're passing the integer 70 for object dog one and integer 8 for object dog two for the dog class... and these these 2 integers are sent to the setsize method so we're not accessing instance variable size directly.
i dont quite get it though....if we the programmer are the one deciding what size the integer is for the dog, and the setsize method takes the one.setSize(70) or (8) and puts them in setsize(int s) as s... but only to copy that integer stored in s back to private int size.... why do we even need to bother with making these two extra methods such as setSize, getSize?
in the book it says that... well what if the code gets into the wrong hand and someone writes something like one.setSize(0) then you would get a dog with size 0 which is essentially illogical. but then again, i'm the programmer, and i am the person who writes the code and passing the right integer.The reason for public and private... that part i understand... i can see why if a variable's data can get changed amidst the code during calculations and you dont want it to directly change the original variable and have it mess up the code, but this code from the book just a bad example of demonstrating the reason? since we manually pass the information ourselves and passing it to method setSize... and all setSize does is stores it in another integer, only to copy it right away to size (which is the original private variable we were tryign to protect?
Any simple code to demonstrate how the code might end up changing an instance variable and why we would want to protect it by using private?
class GoodDog { private int size; public int getSize() { return size; } public void setSize(int s) { size = s;
I am currently trying to use Junit to test a whole bunch of stuff. I almost have full line coverage but I am getting hung up on testing an if statement that consists of whether or not an object is an instance of another class. This class happens to be an interface, and even the object is an interface. Weird I know but I just want to know how to get into that if statement. I realize testing interfaces might be a waste of time but I still really want to know how. Here is an example of what I am trying to test:
Java Code:
if(x instance of y){ //where x and y are both interface objects doSomething(); } mh_sh_highlight_all('java');
public void randomCreate(ParentObject obj){ int x = random(0-4); //pseudo int y = random(0-4); //pseudo create new ParentObj(x,y); }
ParentObject is actually abstract, so you would only ever pass one of its children objects to it, and a child object of that type would be created. It seems like there should be a way to pass a type, rather than an object, and then create an instance later down, but I don't know if that is actually possible, or if it is poor programming style.
what have I done wrong n the following code? I'm trying to create a new instance carte of object Carti using the constructor and then to insert a row into a table created with SQL.The error I'm getting is:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException at Carti.Carti.InsertCarti(Carti.java:103) at Main.main(Main.java:37) Java Result: 1 BUILD SUCCESSFUL (total time: 28 seconds)
The line Main.main(Main.java:37) is when I try to insert the row. The line Carti.Carti.InsertCarti(Carti.java:103) is when I do the PreparedStatement st = conn.prepareStatement("insert into Carti (Id,titlu" + ", descriere, autor, editie, anPublicare) values (?,?,?,?,?,?)");
Whenever i perform any operation in my application Live Bytes of a particular Instance of a class increases by 1000.Although i perform the same operation everytime it always increases by 100 or 1000.Is this a memory leak or does these instances increase everytime we perform an operation.
I assumed that this is because the constructor Account(); is setting the variables to 0 every time the program runs even though I'm passing other variables through to methods and constructors. I've looked up similar programs and this is how it's done though. The steps to my homework say to create a no-arg constructor Account() that creates a default(0) account Id and balance. What did I do wrong?
import java.util.Date; public class Account { private int Id; private double balance; private double annualInterestRate; private Date dateCreated = new Date(); public static void main (String [] args){ //Objects of Account to get non-static methods
Can I assign multiple values to one variable? For example I want myNum = 0 thru 9 you see im trying to program a password checker program to verify that the password meets all the criteria 8 char long, 1 upper case, 1 lower case, 1 numeric, 1 special, and don't contain and or end
I have a problem with my code. When, on strausParser class, i create the new object Beam i give him an array of Node object called "nodiestremi".
The problem is that when a Beam is created, the Beam created before take the Node of new Beam. Why it appends?
public class Main { public static void main(String[] args) throws NumberFormatException, IOException{ SetFile.setupWindows(); Structure structure = new Structure(); } public class SetFile { }
public class Puppy{ int puppyAge; public Puppy(String name){ // This constructor has one parameter, name. System.out.println("Passed Name is :" + name ); } public void setAge( int age ){ puppyAge = age;
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How do I put 3 values of the each variable without replacing the last inputted one?
Like when I input "Tommy" and input another name "Gerald", "Tommy" won't be replaced by "Gerald" when I input again.
I'm almost finished my Bank Account exercise and I found myself stuck at the last part. Its asking me to add a method that asks the user to input the name of the account into which they want to deposit money, then search the ArrayList for that account. If it is found, the user is asked how much money they wish to deposit.
I already have my deposit method sorted so basically what I need is just searching through the ArrayList by the name variable. I assume its don't by iterating through with some form of for loop.Heres what I have:
import java.util.Scanner; public class BankAccount { private double balance; private String name; public BankAccount(double balance, String name){ this.balance = balance;
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And the driver class
import java.util.ArrayList; import java.util.Scanner; public class BankDriver { Scanner scan = new Scanner(System.in); ArrayList<BankAccount> list; public BankDriver(){
So I set out to write a program that takes two things from user: Name and Age
Then prints out "Name is Age"
I went through using a "launcher" and having a proper object: [URL]
The class names are Practice and Practice Launcher because I just use a Practice file as a sandbox environment so I understand its not correctly named. I also understand my comments aren't great but I'm just trying to make it work.
Practice.java public class Practice { //constructor public Practice (String a, int b) {
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My Practice.userName doesnt reference the variable userName. Why is this?
Also y does this line need Practice twice? Practice Practice = new Practice(userName, 45);
Say I have two classes, Author and Book, and I have 2 author objects and 10 book objects. I would like to know how to do two things:
1) Make some sort of connection that makes clear that author X wrote books A, B and F. 2) Call a method from a book object that is connected to an author.
Seeing as I don't know which books will be connected to an author, is there some way to call a method of an object bases on a variable object name? Something like call the getFirstPage() method for every book that is linked to author X?
simple assignment of values to a previously initialized object?
See the method useModel ()
The idea is, assign the values to the temporary object, data
Then plunk it into this statement:
model.addRow ( data );
Simple enough?
I've been putzing with the syntax for multiple hours, over days, now.
With and without
[0];,
Netbeans keeps giving me: Illegal start of expression data is declared as an array of Object, although, in this case, it does not need to be an array. What is the correct syntax?
