An analysis of Microsoft's new software authoring tool says that Redmond may have hit a false note in its attempt to lure Java developers to the .NET model.
Regular expressions are a useful programming tool.
The fact that Java now natively supports them simplifies many programming tasks that used to require cumbersome code. Baldwin explains the behavior of the run method of the animation thread as well as the makeSprite method of the controlling class. He provides a preview of the SpriteManager class and the Sprite class. He discusses the repaint, update, and paint methods of the Component class, and discusses the timer loop used in this program. He also suggests an alternative approach that makes use of a Timer object to fire Action events.