Passing variables from one class to another

I'm making a tetris game. Most of the hard work is done, in that the pieces fall, and the player can move them side to side, turn them, and drop them. Now I'd like to make a scoring system and other nice little bells and whistles.

The "MainGrid" class is where the game is actually played. Now I made a new class called "MasterPanel" that makes a MainGrid and a new section called the "ScorePanel"

The thing is, I need information to be fed from the MainGrid into the ScorePanel, even though neither one is contained inside the other. I hope that makes sense. How can I do it?

You make use of callback methods.

Code:

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class Foo {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new Foo().run();
    }

    public void print() {
        System.out.println("Hello World!");
    }

    public void run() {
        Bar b = new Bar(this);
        b.doStuff
    }
}

class Bar {
    Foo foo;

    Bar(Foo f) {
        foo = f;
    }

    public void doStuff() {
        foo.print();
    }
}

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In the above code the Foo object is passed as a parameter to the Bar object when it is created. This allows to Bar object to callback to a method in the Foo object.

In your case you would use the MasterPanel class to control things. When you want something to happen in the ScorePanel, the MainGrid class callsback to the MasterPanel class which then calls a method in the ScorePanel class, passing along the data you want.

So I have to make TWO methods, one to pass it into the MasterPanel, and one to retrieve it? Huh.

What I described above is one way and basically adheres to the MVC (model-view-controller) pattern. Alternatively you could pass a reference of the ScorePanel class to the MainGrid class so it can call the method in ScorePanel directly.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Junky

What I described above is one way and basically adheres to the MVC (model-view-controller) pattern. Alternatively you could pass a reference of the ScorePanel class to the MainGrid class so it can call the method in ScorePanel directly.

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What's a "reference?"

Code:

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String str = "hello";

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In the above line str is not a String. It is a variable in particular a reference variable. What that means is the variable str holds a value which is a reference to the String object.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Junky

Code:

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String str = "hello";

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In the above line str is not a String. It is a variable in particular a reference variable. What that means is the variable str holds a value which is a reference to the String object.

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Okay, but how do I refer to the specific object? In that, I need to constantly stream information from MainGrid to ScorePanel, so I don't want to make a new one inside of it.

Have you created a variable that references a ScorePanel object? The answer is probably yes so you have a reference to that object stored in the variable. So everytime you need to reference the ScorePanel you use the variable.

A little different take.

Code:

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class Foo {
    public static void main( String[] args ) {
        Foo m = new Foo();
        m.run();
    }

    public void print( int data ) {
        System.out.println( "The value = " + data );
    }

    public void run() {
        Bar b = new Bar();
        b.doStuff();
    }
}

class Bar {
    public void doStuff() {
        Foo foo = new Foo();
        int j = 10;       
        foo.print( j );
    }
}

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See how the doStuff method in Bar passes the int value back to Foo's print method?

Hey, waddya know. I helped someone in this thread too. Looks like you incorrect assumptions are well incorrect.

stchman

Congrats, you are the first to be added to my ignore list. Don't bother replying

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