de.adom.jade.ui
Class UserInterfaceFactory

java.lang.Object
  de.adom.jade.ui.UserInterfaceFactory

public class UserInterfaceFactory

extends java.lang.Object

Permits the selection of a specific user interface type. The basic idea behind this mechanism is that JADE supports an arbitrary number of user interfaces for the internal game engine. The default interface is implemented by Thomas Biskup and represents the classical roguelike game interface based on ascii symbols. Other interfaces might replace this way of playing with graphical tiles and other stuff. In theory a user interface even might represent a server that communicates with a kind of remote terminal.

User interfaces must be implemented in the following way:

• A subpackage of de.adom.ui must be defined. The ascii subpackage is reserved by Thomas Biskup for the standard JADE interface.
• The new subpackage must contain a class called AsciiUserInterface implementing the interface UserInterface.
• The AsciiUserInterface must contain a constructor without parameters. This constructor must not execute any complex CPU intensive operations because this factory will instantiate all connectors discovered in order to read their descriptions and offer them to the user. CPU intensive operations should be deferred to the initialize function which will be executed once a specific UI has been selected.

This class will automatically find all such subpackages and offer them to the game.

See Also:

UserInterface, UserInterface.initialize(de.adom.jade.startup.SplashScreen)

Method Summary

static UserInterface

createUserInterface() Selects a user interface from the available list of user interfaces.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

createUserInterface

public static UserInterface createUserInterface()

Selects a user interface from the available list of user interfaces.

Returns:

the chosen user interface, fully initialized and ready for configuration