Introduction To
Greenfoot
Part-3
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Disclaimer
 This document is intended to give a beginner an introductory
material for the Greenfoot system. Greenfoot is a software
framework made by Poul Henriksen and Michael Koelling at
University of Kent / Deakin University. More information can be
found at http://www.greenfoot.org
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Purpose
 This is the second part of the document „Introduction to
Greenfoot“ and focuses on two topics: modification and
programming of the wombats scenario
 Part of the content of these slides is based on the
Greenfoot Tutorial made by Michael Koelling,
publicly accesible at the Greenfoot website,
http://www.greenfoot.org
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Outline
 Changing the Behaviour
 Changing Representations
 Creating New Classes
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Changing the Behaviour (1)
 We want to change the behaviour of Wombat objects :
instead of always turning left, they shall be able to turn to
other directions in a random way
 We will add an additional method, called turnRandom()
 Open the source code of the Wombat class, add the
following codes
Generate a random
number between 0 and 3
call turnLeft()
turns times
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Changing the Behaviour (2)
if you find leaves, eat !
if you don‘t find leaves, but you
can move forward, then move!
if you don‘t find leaves and you
also cannot move, then turn to a
random direction!
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Changing the Behaviour (3)
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Changing Representations (1)
 Visual representation (image) of an object can be
changed in two different ways
– Changing the „class image“; in this way, all objects of the same
class shall look the same (to the assigned class image)
– Changing the image programmatically; in this way, objects of the
same class might look different, depending on the
implementation
 These two ways might be combined!
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Changing Representations (2)
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Changing Representations (3)
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Changing Representations (4)
the result of populate()
after changin the class image
Additionally change the class image
then add 2 objects after modification
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Changing Representations (5)
to set the image of an object
programmatically
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Changing Representations (6)
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Creating New Classes (1)
 We could not only modify the
behaviour of objects, but also add
a completely new type of objects
i.e. create new classes
 Right-click the class Actor and
choose item „New subclass ...“,
enter the class name and select a
class image in the dialog;
Greenfoot will automatically
generate your class !
 In this case we add a new class,
called Rock. The image for this
class is already available in the
wombats scenario folder
class image for
the Rock class
images available in the wombats
scenario folder
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Creating New Classes (2)
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Creating New Classes (3)
 To stop wombats
from walking
through rocks ...
check all Rock objects
in front of you;
if there is no Rock object,
return true (i.e. okay it‘s
clear!) , otherwise return
false (i.e. you cannot move!)
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Creating New Classes (4)
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