Thread: Java Applet Shooter click timings/limit

Hi
I'm doing a shooter game for a project at school.
I've got it set to detect when I click the mouse and where the x and y co-ordinates of the cursor is.
It also detects a mouse drag, dragging is fine because at the end I have a sleep command with the time based on the weapon.
However I don't know what I can do with the mouse clicked one.
Puting a sleep statement at the start would just put a delay between my clicks and firing and at the end would do nothing.
I have quite a few hundred lines of code and I don't really want to spend hours changing everything, I also know nothing about multi-threading and everything on the internet seems really complicated or I have no idea how to implement it into my code.

so I want a nice short piece of code i can put into my applet that will limit my mouse clicks to once every 100ms or 700ms(different guns)

I'm working with BlueJ

Thanks to anyone who can help

It also detects a mouse drag, dragging is fine because at the end I have a sleep command with the time based on the weapon.

Not sure what this means or how that could be "fine," whatever that means.

I've got it set to detect when I click the mouse and where the x and y co-ordinates of the cursor is . . . I don't know what I can do with the mouse clicked one.

These statements seem contradictory. What are you saying?

so I want a nice short piece of code i can put into my applet that will limit my mouse clicks to once every 100ms or 700ms(different guns)

As you've already suggested, this is not done by sleeping the thread.

You have several hundred lines of code, and you want someone to give you a few simple lines that do what you describe (whatever that is) and just fit right into what you have without the author even seeing what the lines are being fit into? Does that seem reasonable to you?

If you haven't already, you need to learn how to use Timers. A small, simple game loop could be used to accomplish what you want done when you want them done. Perhaps all you want can be done with one or a few Timers, but it's hard to say. I can understand not wanting to extensively change what you have, especially if it's due soon. Sometimes we squeeze ourselves into tight spots because of unreasonable, self-determined limitations, assumptions, looming deadlines, or misplaced code affection.

I can see how that was hard to understand.
I apologize I'm very new to Java and this is my first time posting anything on these forums.
I have no idea what timers are or how you use them.
Could you please link me to something explaining, possibly with an example?

I need to limit the amount of times my code can run "public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e)" in a short amount of time.
Everything in this method is what does the shooting in the game.
but you can just keep pressing the mouse button and shoot way faster then I would like.

The Oracle tutorials are always a great place to start. Start by using your favorite search engine to search something like: java timer tutorial. In many cases, one of the first results will include "oracle" in the address, and might be titled "How to Use Swing Timers."

There are many, many, many examples of how to do simple animation and control in Java Applets. Again, using your favorite search engine properly fed will yield many results.

Good luck and come back when you need help with specific elements of your project.