Object Reference Question

[paul pavlentey]

I have very basic Java Question about object assignment.
interface
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public interface Animatable {
public void animate();
}
class
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public class GameShape {
public void displayShape() {
System.out.println("Displaying Shape");
}

}
class which extends GameShape and implements interface Animatable
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public class PlayerPiece extends GameShape implements Animatable{
public void movePiece() {
System.out.println("moving game piece");
}
public void animate() {
System.out.println("animating......");
}

}

I dont understand the following assignement of variable "player".
I understand new object player is created (
PlayerPiece player= new PlayerPiece() ,
but how player is assigned to Object, GameShape and Animatable.
Object o=player;
GameShape shape=player;
Animatable mover=player;

What will it to player and how instances of Object, GameShape and Anumatable are effected?

Thanks in advance,
Paul

[Barry Gaunt]

Welcome to the Sun Certified Java Programmer Certification forum at JavaRanch.
I'm moving your question to our Java In General (Beginner) forum...

[Keith Lynn]

You can make the assignments because

Object o = player; - PlayerPiece "is a" Object

GameShape shape = player; - Player "is a" GameShape because PlayerPiece extends GameShape

Animatable mover = player; - Player "is a" Animatable because PlayerPiece implements Animatable

[Douglas Chorpita]

Is this some new Java syntax?

 
class Egg extends Food implements Edible 
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}
 

interesting....

[Ankur Sharma]

Originally posted by Douglas Chorpita:
Is this some new Java syntax?

 
class Egg extends Food implements Edible 
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}
 

interesting....

No this was the intresting postfix way for highlighting your code and comments.. I hope you understands well..

[Jesper de Jong]

Originally posted by Ankur Sharma:
No this was the intresting postfix way for highlighting your code and comments.. I hope you understands well..

For the original poster: We have the [ code ] ... [ /code] tags here in the forum to indicate a piece of source code. If you use them around the Java source that you post, the source code will be nicely formatted in your post.
[ July 21, 2006: Message edited by: Jesper Young ]

[paul pavlentey]

Originally posted by Jesper Young:

For the original poster: We have the [ code ] ... [ /code] tags here in the forum to indicate a piece of source code. If you use them around the Java source that you post, the source code will be nicely formatted in your post.

[ July 21, 2006: Message edited by: Jesper Young ]

Thank you I will post correctly next time..........