Question

I just wanted to add space invaders as an easter egg to a program I made.
I found an open source code Here

The game runs fine on its own. However when I try to run it from a button in my program it makes my program and that game freeze. I just took his source code and added it to mine, so it is in the same jar file.

I tried 2 ways to start it.

java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {         
                Game.main(null);
                }
        });           
        }

and

plain old Game.main(null);

Should I be starting this some other way?

Answer 1

public static void main() {  

        // Start the main game loop, note: this method will not
        // return until the game has finished running. Hence we are
        // using the actual main thread to run the game.    
        SpaceInvaders si = new SpaceInvaders();
        Thread SpaceInvaders = new Thread(si);
        SpaceInvaders.start();          
        }

    @Override
    public void run() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        new SpaceInvaders().gameLoop();
    }
}

Just had to create it’s own thread for it.