Thread: packages

Hi again.

Ok so I have been developing a zelda clone. It works beautifully. I just want to clean up and organize my project folder. I started with everything in the same folder. To begin organizing, I put everything I haves as text data files in folders. Now I have maps, images, scripts, saves, and dialogs folders, and edited my game code to load/save everything to the appropriate folders.

Where I'm stumped is I have a lot of tools, ex. ImageTools.java, IOOperations.java, and TileSet.java to name a few. I also have a million game objects, for ex. gameProp.java, GameEnemy.java, and GameNPC.java to name a few. What I would like to do is put all the tools in a Tools folder and all the objects in an Objects folder.

I tried so far by adding "package ImageTools;" for example to the top of each tool, using the tool's name
I then placed every tool into the Tools folder and javac'ed everything, and this was the result.
I also added import Tools.*;
I then tried import Tools.toolName.*;

Further down I was trying to put everything into separate folders within the Tools folder.
this has been edited for an easier read.

C:\JSource\MyGame>javac MapMaker.java
MapMaker.java:36: cannot access Tools.IOOperations
bad class file: .\Tools\IOOperations.class
class file contains wrong class: IOOperations
Please remove or make sure it appears in the correct subdirectory of the classpath.
  private IOOperations ioObject;
          ^
 
 
C:\JSource\MyGame>javac MapMaker.java
MapMaker.java:36: cannot access Tools.IOOperations
bad class file: .\Tools\IOOperations.class
class file contains wrong class: IOOperations
Please remove or make sure it appears in the correct subdirectory of the classpath.
  private IOOperations ioObject;
          ^
 
C:\JSource\MyGame>javac MapMaker.java
MapMaker.java:15: package Tools.WindowCloser does not exist
import Tools.WindowCloser.*;
^
MapMaker.java:40: cannot access Tools.IOOperations.IOOperations
bad class file: .\Tools\IOOperations\IOOperations.java
file does not contain class Tools.IOOperations.IOOperations
Please remove or make sure it appears in the correct subdirectory of the classpath.
  private IOOperations ioObject;
          ^
 
C:\JSource\MyGame>javac MapMaker.java
MapMaker.java:15: package Tools.WindowCloser does not exist
import Tools.WindowCloser.*;
^
MapMaker.java:40: cannot find symbol
symbol  : class IOOperations
location: package Tools
  private Tools.IOOperations ioObject;
               ^
MapMaker.java:41: cannot access Tools.ImageTools.ImageTools
bad class file: .\Tools\ImageTools\ImageTools.class
class file contains wrong class: ImageTools.ImageTools
Please remove or make sure it appears in the correct subdirectory of the classpath.
  private ImageTools iT = new ImageTools();
          ^
 
C:\JSource\MyGame>javac MapMaker.java
MapMaker.java:11: package Tools.DecoratedIcon does not exist
import Tools.DecoratedIcon.*;
^
MapMaker.java:12: package Tools.ImageSplitter does not exist
import Tools.ImageSplitter.*;
^
MapMaker.java:13: package Tools.ImageTools does not exist
import Tools.ImageTools.*;
^
MapMaker.java:14: package Tools.IOOperations does not exist
import Tools.IOOperations.*;
^
MapMaker.java:15: package Tools.WindowCloser does not exist
import Tools.WindowCloser.*;
^
MapMaker.java:40: package Tools does not exist
  private Tools.IOOperations ioObject;
               ^
MapMaker.java:41: cannot access ImageTools
bad class file: .\ImageTools.class
class file contains wrong class: ImageTools.ImageTools
Please remove or make sure it appears in the correct subdirectory of the classpath.
  private ImageTools iT = new ImageTools();
          ^
 
C:\JSource\MyGame>javac MapMaker.java
MapMaker.java:35: cannot access IOOperations
bad class file: .\IOOperations.java
file does not contain class IOOperations
Please remove or make sure it appears in the correct subdirectory of the classpath.
  private IOOperations ioObject;
          ^

Is there a way to do this?

I was thinking maybe combining the tools and objects classes into one tools.class and objects.class with delicately crafted constructors.