Beginners fault

[NGE]

Hello everyone,

My name is Norman I'm from Holland and I study Management Information Technology @ Hogeschool Arnhem Nijmegen. I'll make a good opening post in the right forum. But for now I've a beginners problem with a NullPointerException in a game I must create. I will explain it:

Error:

Start ruimte zoeken en x,y is 10,0
alles: 20,null
nullpointerexeption fout
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at Bubblegame.Hangbubble.zoekRuimte(+137)
	at Bubblegame.Hangbubble.<init>(+78)
	at Bubblegame.Bubblegame.startGame(+52)
	at Bubblegame.Bubblegame.menuAction(+61)
	at phonegame.GameEngine$GameWindow.commandAction(+16)
	at javax.microedition.lcdui.Display$DisplayAccessor.commandAction(+282)
	at javax.microedition.lcdui.Display$DisplayManagerImpl.commandAction(+10)
	at com.sun.midp.lcdui.DefaultEventHandler.commandEvent(+68)
	at com.sun.midp.lcdui.AutomatedEventHandler.commandEvent(+47)
	at com.sun.midp.lcdui.DefaultEventHandler$QueuedEventHandler.handleVmEvent(+186)
	at com.sun.midp.lcdui.DefaultEventHandler$QueuedEventHandler.run(+57)

Here's my Class

public class Hangbubble extends Bubble{
[LEFT]
	private int points;
	public static int kleur;
	private int x ;
	private int y ;
	private Bubblegame mijnspel;
	
	
	public Hangbubble(Bubblegame mijnspel)
	{	
		this.mijnspel = mijnspel;
		System.out.println("Klasse hangbubble wordt aangeroepen " + mijnspel);
		points = 20;
		x=10;
		y=0;
		
		for (int i = 0; i< 23;i++ )
		{
		Bubble bb = new Bubble();	
		bb.kleurkiezen(mijnspel);
		setImage(bb.s);
		
		zoekRuimte();
		bb.setPosition(x,y);
		mijnspel.addGameItem(bb);	
		}
	}

					

		public void zoekRuimte()
		{
		int n=10;
		System.out.println("Start ruimte zoeken en x,y is " + x + "," + y );
		System.out.println("alles: " + points + "," + mijnspel );
		
		
		if  (mijnspel == null)
		{
			System.out.println ("nullpointerexeption fout");
		}
		
		while		(mijnspel.findItemAt(x,y,getFrameWidth(),getFrameHeight()) != null )  
					{
					x=x+n;
					System.out.println("Iets gevonden");
					zoekRuimte();
					}
			
		if			(mijnspel.findItemAt(x,y,getFrameWidth(),getFrameHeight()) == null )   					//Kijkt of er bubble op de x-as zit
					{
					if			(mijnspel.findTilesAt (x,y,getFrameWidth(),getFrameHeight()) == 0 )		// Als er geen bubble op locatie ... zit dan wordt daar een bubble geplaatst
								{
								System.out.println("Coordinaten om te plaatsen" + getX() + "," + getY() );	
								x=getX();
								y=getY();
								}
					else 
								{
								x=10;
								y=y+n;
								
								zoekRuimte();
								}	
		
					}
												   
					
				
					
		}[/LEFT]

I found as you can see that my 'mijnspel' has a null value when i run the game. Only I did declared it in my constructor right? I don;t see where this error exists.

Could anyone point me in the right direction, cause I'm trying hours and hours to solve it.
I would be very thankfull!

Norman

[Norm]

Only I did declared it in my constructor right?

You must give it a non-null value to keep from getting a NullPointerException.
Where do you give the variable at line: Bubblegame.Hangbubble.zoekRuimte(+137)
a value?

[JosAH]

Yep, most likely (your own program says so) 'mijnspel' equals null. You pass it to your constructor so a null value is passed to it but you didn't show us the code where you are trying to create a new HangBubble object ...

kind regards,

Jos

[NGE]

I create a new Hangbubble object in the Bubblegame class using this method

	public void startGame()
	{
		System.out.println ("Startgame wordt aangeroepen" );

		setBackgroundImage("/images/background.png",true);					//Setbackgroundimage (mogelijkheid met randomselect
		System.out.println("Achtergrond geplaatst");						//meerdere achtergronden)
		
	
		Klok = new Controller(this);										
		
		for (int i=0; i <6;i++)											
		{Hangbubble = new Hangbubble(mijnspel);}
		System.out.println ("Hangbubbles geplaatst");

And i don't understand the error code in the console because: Bubblegame.Hangbubble.zoekRuimte(+137)
is at line 137? My whole Hangbubble class only contains 104 lines??? Where does it point to?

[JosAH]

I create a new Hangbubble object in the Bubblegame class using this method

	public void startGame()
	{
		System.out.println ("Startgame wordt aangeroepen" );

		setBackgroundImage("/images/background.png",true);					//Setbackgroundimage (mogelijkheid met randomselect
		System.out.println("Achtergrond geplaatst");						//meerdere achtergronden)
		
	
		Klok = new Controller(this);										
		
		for (int i=0; i <6;i++)											
		{Hangbubble = new Hangbubble(mijnspel);}
		System.out.println ("Hangbubbles geplaatst");

And i don't understand the error code in the console because: Bubblegame.Hangbubble.zoekRuimte(+137)
is at line 137? My whole Hangbubble class only contains 104 lines??? Where does it point to?

What is the value of 'mijnspel' in that method? b.t.w. are you sure you (re)compiled your latest source code? Are you running the latest/current version of your code? The JVM doesn't mention out of bounds line numbers.

kind regards,

Jos

[NGE]

What is the value of 'mijnspel' in that method? b.t.w. are you sure you (re)compiled your latest source code? Are you running the latest/current version of your code? The JVM doesn't mention out of bounds line numbers.

kind regards,

Jos

	public void startGame()
	{
		System.out.println ("Startgame wordt aangeroepen" );

		setBackgroundImage("/images/background.png",true);					//Setbackgroundimage (mogelijkheid met randomselect
		System.out.println("Achtergrond geplaatst");						//meerdere achtergronden)
		
	
		Klok = new Controller(this);										
		
		for (int i=0; i <6;i++)											
		{Hangbubble = new Hangbubble([COLOR="yellow"]this[/COLOR]);}
		System.out.println ("Hangbubbles geplaatst");

mijnspel references to Bubblegame and I found one error that I adjusted above. In the class bubblegame class I'd reference to bubblegame so that was double. I changed it to 'this' and now it seems to work.
Yes, it was the latest/current version of my code. Up to the next thing to debug.

But thank you very much all of you that helped! (But i don't think this would be the last question ) we'll see

[JosAH]

Please dont' use that yelllow colour; it is hardly readable; putting it between code tags is enough thank you.

kind regards,

Jos