Java Game troubles continue

[Fortu]

I'm getting confused about how to move a rifle that an enemy would drop on screen so that it obeys the same motions as other objects on screen when you begin to move far enough that the background shifts. If anyone could please help it would be appreciated.

  public void move(ArrayList alien)  // THIS METHOD IS WHERE THE BUG IS
  {
    second = alien;
    x=x+movex;
    if (v == 2)
    {
      v = 0;
      y=y-movey;
      if (movey > -25)
      {
        movey = movey-1;
      }
    }
    if(x<100)
    {
      x=100;
      grass1.shiftX();
      grass2.shiftX();
      grass3.shiftX();

      for(int p=0; p<second.size(); p++)
      {
        Brit enemy2 = (Brit) second.get(p);
        enemy2.move2();
	fourth = enemy2.getSmoothbore(); // Here's the bug. I want to get all rifles
	//From the enemy class, but the issue is that enemy2 or rifles contained by
	// enemy2 are not sent to Inner to be painted, so moving them in this way
	// Does nothing, but I can't think of code to fix this.

	for(int y=0; y<fourth.size(); y++)
	{
	  Smoothbore smooth1 = (Smoothbore) fourth.get(y);
	  smooth1.shiftX();
	}
      }
    }
    if(x>375)
    {
      x=375;
      grass1.changeX();
      grass2.changeX();
      grass3.changeX();

      for(int o=0; o<second.size(); o++)
      {
        Brit enemy2 = (Brit) second.get(o);
        enemy2.move();
	fourth = enemy2.getSmoothbore();  //Same issue here as above
	for(int u=0; u<fourth.size(); u++)
	{
	  Smoothbore smooth1 = (Smoothbore) fourth.get(u);
	  smooth1.changeX();
	}
      }
    }
    if(y<1)
    {
      y=1;
    }
    if(y>371)
    {
      y=371;
    }
    if(y>390)
    {
      y=390;
    }
    v = v + 1;
  }

[quad64bit]

I think you're going to find yourself needing to resign the structure of part of the application. If multiple objects need to share some bit of arbitrary information (like position at runtime), then perhaps you need to associate both objects with some kind of monitor that allows object to object communication. Best of luck!

[Fortu]

Well, I did resign part of the structure of the game. I used logic for just half a second and found that it was silly of me to link my Gun class to my enemy class when I could just keep them separate.