Nokia are investing a lot of money in the N-Gage which is still only a series 60 phone (ha only) its a shame that the best content will probably be Symbian and not java

Read here http://www.forum.nokia.com/Nokia_Previews_N-Gage

Oh btw you can get doom for your phone already http://www.wildpalm.co.uk/Doom7650.html

Just making sure everyone checked out the gaming section of the nokia forum, it has some interesting reading


http://www.forum.nokia.com/

Yeah I mean whats the point of playing games at all, we should all sit it in a darkened room all day. mmm

Hey thats looking really good everyone should check it out!
I’ll be keeping an eye on your site  

Hey egonolsen dont give up on your software dream we cant all sail in the same boat...

Do you start upside down? Cos when you go right it goes left,  hehe

Btw its looking good

wow great info people, btw my names Dave for reference. Yes I thought using a Vector was perhaps not the most efficient means of trying to do what I wanted to do.

Im going to have a look at implementing cknolls idea for the collection at the weekend. (to be honest I didnt expect such a quick response, and ive got to get my interim report finished for my dissertation by Thursday, then Ill have some time).

At the moment the paint systems works by having 2 offscreen images one for the back buffer and one to hold the drawn picture. In the rendering loop the drawn picture is used to erase the backbuffer and then the droplets are drawn with drawRect (as they are 4 pix each) on to backbuffer.

I don’t quite get what you mean cknoll with the memoryimageSource could you explane how that can speed things up.

The end applets going to be a lot of fun as im going to put some momentum in the water and tiny little surfers that can surf down the courses that you have drawn : )

Hi again, thanks for all your input, I thought I should try to explain what im trying to do with the collection so you can suggest if im going about it in a sensible manner

If you have a look at www.retrosoft.co.uk and go on the menu to fun->project water

I want to use a Vector so that when the water flows to the bottom of the screen it can be removed from the collection, ie the collection is going to be changing dynamically all the time (it doesn’t do this yet)

Also the collection elements are a class that holds the position of the element and holds its methods for updating its state. Would it be more sensible to have an updater class?

The reason I have it this way is so I only have to run through the loop once to update and draw.

Hi people,

I have a vector with about 10,000 objects in it that I need to iterate through on each frame of game loop, now the million dollar question is what is the fastest way to do this?

At the moment im using

Enumeration enum = land.elements();
        while (enum.hasMoreElements())
          Things element = (Things)enum.nextElement();

Would it be faster to use a different way?

And I heard that putting it all in a
try
    {}
     catch (ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException aioobe) {}

could speed things up , any truth to that?

Thanks for all your help in advance :)

nice looking site, hope everything goes well

yeah thats a nice looking phone