collideWith Call Back Method

Question

In my class, I extend Sprite class. I override one of the method collideWith(). But my problem was that when current sprite collide with other sprite it does not call the call back method collideWith(). Here is my implementation.

@Override
public boolean collidesWith(IShape pOtherShape) {
    System.out.println("collide with called");
    return true;
}

Any member please help me.

Answer 1

This is not a callback, you have to call the method yourself to find out whether the Sprites collide. By overriding it you broke its functionality. What you want to do (I think) is override the onUpdate method of the Sprite and put there an if statement calling the collidesWith(otherSprite) method.

Answer 2

Just to clarify a bit.

First read about about callbacks.

If you have to call it yourself, it's probably not a callback.

In java, you can override a method (maybe you should read about OO concepts) like you did:

@Override
public void foo() {
}

The method foo is override in a custom class that probably extends another class (or implements an interface but in this case you have to override all the methods of the interface since they are abstract. Read more about interfaces here.) that contains a foo method itself.

class ParentClass {

    public void foo() {
        //do something
    }

Since overriding a method mean "redefining" his behavior, if you call the foo method from your custom class extending ParentClass it will (in this case) not do anything. If you want to reach a method from a parent class, use super.

@Override
public void foo() {
    super.foo(); //will call the foo method of the parent class
    //add custom code here
}

Also you should read this great tutorial covering inherence in Java: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/IandI/subclasses.html