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Basic
Course in Special Effects and Game Programming in Java™
by
Aníbal Wainstein
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FAQ
Last
updated 1999-05-03
CONTENTS
General
questions about the course
Question
: Can't
you publish new chapters more often? One get's impatient!
Answer
:
Note that the applets and programs developed during the course take
a while to do. Not to mention writing the course content.
Questions
about installing
Question
:
I have a slow Internet connection so that when I want to download
the development tools it will take hours. Couldn't you offer those
tools on a CD-ROM and offer them for sale?
Answer
:
Unfortunately it is very complicated or impossible to get permission
to distribute those tools from Microsoft or Sun in CD-media. No,
the only way is to download them from Microsofts or Javasofts sites.
Question
:
Must I really download the SDK or the JDK? I found a lot of
Java classes and other things in the folder "c:\windows\java"
and I'm wondering if I don't have what's necessary to begin developing.
I also happen to have Internet Explorer 4.0 too.
Answer
:
Under that folder are the Java classes that are used by your web
browser. You have the Java Virtual Machine on your system but you
have not the compilator that you need to create programs. The compilator
exist only in the SDK or the JDK.
Question
:
I have downloaded JDK 1.1.7.b now but I can't find the start file
for the program where you write the program code.
Answer
:
Unfortunately there is no editor in the Toolkit. You should use
your own. You may use the text editor in Windows (notepad) or "edit.exe"
which you can run in a DOS window.
Question
:
I wonder where I can download the API reference that you wrote about
in chapter 2.
Answer
:
You can do that here:
http://www.javasoft.com/products/jdk/1.1/docs.html
Questions
about compilation
Question
:
I have after one nights downloading not been able to find the
jvc.exe in those files that were fetched in the Microsoft page.
Is the compilator included?
Answer
:
It should be under the "bin" folder. Be sure to check
that you have downloaded the right file. The file that contains
the SDK should be called "sdk-java.exe".
Question
:
When I save a file in Windows notepad as a text file then I get
automatically the txt tag. The compilator can naturaly not read
this. I therefore change name from "myapplet.txt" to "myapplet.java".
Is this wrong?
Answer
:
This is the problem with using Windows notepad. However it works
completely fine just to change the file tag to ".java"
after saving the file. It will not affect the end result.
Question
:
In what program do you create the class files?
Answer
:
You develop the class files in the compilator. The class files are
the result when you compile your java file where the code has been
written in the form of ordinary ASCII text. It is the class files
that is the actual program and they are equivalent to Windows EXE-files
(but they cannot be executed directly as you can with EXE files).
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