Using Java's Audio Classes - Audio Fundamentals
Audio is an area of multimedia that has stirred up a lot of excitement on the Web. It still isn't clear how far audio will permeate the Web world, but there is little doubt that it will play a vital role in the future of Java. As a Web communication tool, audio is extremely engaging and can often grab your attention even when visual cues fall short. In this article, you learn the basics about digital audio, along with how the current version of Java provides audio support. Then we'll show you how to put together a pretty neat sample applet and finish with a glimpse at where future Java audio extensions might be headed.
Animation Techniques with Java
Animation is perhaps one of the most popular uses of the Java language thus far. Even if few people have realized the full potential of using Java to solve problems on the Web, most can see the benefits of using Java to animate Web content. Java is indeed the ideal technology to bring animation to the Web. Here you'll learn all about animation as it applies to Java, including the different types of fundamental animation techniques.
Writing 2D Games in Java: The Asteroids Applet Class
Animating 2D game objects is not all that different from animating sprite characters. A few advanced motion tricks are needed, but the transition is not too difficult. The game engine we'll show you here will be used as the basis for the arcade standard, Asteroids, but in practice, any 2D action game could be written using the techniques you'll learn in this step-by-step guide.
Including Animation Sequences in your Window Programs
While including animation sequences in your Java programs may at first appear to be complicated, it is, in fact, rather easy once you learn the basics. Animations are nothing more than the rapid display of still images such that the pattern of image display causes the appearance of movement for the objects contained in the image. To create an animation, you need to produce the sequence of objects that are to be displayed and then write a Java program that will display that sequence at a particular display rate. We'll show you how.
Tips
on Using Sound in Java Applets
It might not seem obvious that sound is a design aspect, but until now, sound has not been obtrusive on the World Wide Web. Until Java, sounds on Web pages would require a user to click an icon to activate a sound file, so users were never surprised by sounds out of the blue. Java changes that. With Java, you can incorporate sound into a page so that a sound is played as soon as someone accesses your page.
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