Implementing bluetooth/network code (beginners).

[SM2010]

*duplicate post, but nobody can help in the New to Java forum so am trying here instead*

Hi folks - as a learning exercise, I'm trying to write a very simple J2ME game project (pong) playable via bluetooth, however hopefully my problem is high level enough that it can be answered by non-J2ME'ers too.

What I have up to now is 2 'sub' projects, the pong game and also a skeleton bluetooth client/server. Both of which are fairly straightforward and are working, in their own separate right.

Now however I want to 'plug' the bluetooth Client code (I'll keep Server as a separate class for now) into the game code, but I'm a bit stumped how & more specifically where to do it.

Up to now, for instance, my game Midlet looks like this...

public class Pong extends MIDlet {
	public Pong() { 
	  pongCanvas = new PongCanvas(); 
	}

	public void startApp() {
		Display display =Display.getDisplay(this);
		pongCanvas.start(); 
		display.setCurrent(pongCanvas);
	}

	public void pauseApp() { }
	public void destroyApp(boolean unconditional) { }
	private static PongCanvas pongCanvas; 
}

And then in pongCanvas is the game thread :

	public void run() {
		while(true) {
			updateScreen(getGraphics());
			try { Thread.sleep(sleepTime); }
			catch (Exception e) { }
		}
	}

	public void start() {
                initSprites();
		Thread runner = new Thread(this);
		runner.start();
	}

My assumption is I need to add an output.write() (or similar) call in the game loop, to write out whatever info I want sending as part of the game.

What I don't know, or am failing miserably to grasp, is how to get the Client up and running alongside the game, and how to then access the client methods from within my game class.

Do I need to start the Client in the Midlet class code, or should I just add the Client methods to my game class, and make one big game/client hybrid class?

I'm confused on the structure really, how & where do you generally plug network code into your game. I'm struggling to 'visualise' how the final Midlet/Game/Client classes should look, if that makes any sense.

thanks in advance for any tips.

[SM2010]

68 views but nobody has any suggestions? :(

[peter_budo]

1. Start game
2. Search for available devices
3. Attempt to establish connection
4. Once connected start passing data

So looking at what you provided I would place it in PongCanvas in start(). First searching for device, then connecting and only after that start with sprites and other bits associated with game.

PS: Moaning about not getting reply wouldn't help you. There is no restriction that people cannot view it if they do not know answer.
PS2: Just foreword warning, I'm holidays so there is possibility that my next reply will come only after 29th Dec.

[SM2010]

I'll figure it out, was just looking to save some time. No worries though, am sure it's not as complex to do as I'm making it out to be.