Thanks, I think this will help me a lot 
     

  I need help, i am trying to make a RPG but i dont know how to manage events and so on dialogs!!!!,
   so please can you help me???!!, i know how to load maps from files and that stuff but i really dont
   now how to manage events 

     

  Well actually there is a java port of SDL 
      So if you´re happy with SDL, you can use SDL with java 

  I hope this help you
 
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  Well arrays  are exactly wath you need,
                                                   heres a example code:

                     public class Arrayer {

                                   private int number_Of_Numbers = 9;
                                   private int[] number = new int[number_Of_Numbers];    // or just new int[9]
 
                                                     for (int i; i < number_Of_Numbers; i++){
                                                                       number = i                                         // making the array number[0] = 0, number[1] = 1, etc
                                                         }
                                                                      //  so you can use them like
                                                                                  number[3] = 5;
                                                                                  number[2]++;
                                              }
   
 But arrays always starts with cero, so int[] array = new int[5], will make 5 ints starting with array[0] and ending with array[4]
you can make any object array, you can make Button[] Butt = new Button[4], making 4 buttons, and in the init method a for loop is used to initialize them - for(int r; r < 4, r++){ Button[r] = new Button("button"); Button[r].addActionListener(this); add(Button[r]); }
...

so your code will look like{

int[] var = new int[9];

       for(int i = 0; i < 9; i++)
{
    var = 1;                              // making all variables value 1
}
        then you will have  var[0], var[1], ........., var[9];

      Google for more Java arrays information
                      i Hope this helped you

   Well you can use simple bounding box collision detection, if you´re making a tetris game, every piece of tetris is made of rects
      for example a



                  Determining Intersections with Bounding Boxes

The easiest way to determine if two sprites intersect is by comparing their bounding boxes. A bounding box is the smallest rectangle, with edges parallel to the x and y coordinates, that contains the entire sprite.

Here’s a simple formula for determining if two sprites intersect. Let’s say that the smallest pair of coordinates of box 1 is (x1,y1), and the largest pair is (x2,y2). Similarly, box 2’s smallest coordinates are (x3,y3), and the largest are (x4,y4). Figure 5-11 shows these two boxes in the applet coordinate system. Box 1 intersects with box 2 if and only if the following condition is true:

(x2 >= x3) && (x4 >= x1) &&   // x-extents overlap

(y2 >= y3) && (y4 >= y1)      // y-extents overlap

Here’s another way of describing this equation. The x extent of a box is the range of x coordinates that the box occupies; y extents are defined analogously for y coordinates. The two boxes intersect if both their x extents and their y extents overlap. You can extend this intersection formula to three dimensions by testing whether the z extents also overlap

So this is the boolean you need 

// compare bounding boxes


This routine checks if the sprite at (locx,locy), with the given width and height, intersects the bounding box between the coordinates (x1,y1) and (x2,y2).

so as example you can add a inspection rutine in the update method



Now the only thing you have to do is implementing this boolean in your code and defining sets of Rects to each piece of tetris