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Questions tagged [breakout]
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Google site page in an iframe
I'm building a quite large Flex application as our administration tools and I need build in documentation functionality. I want this documentation to be like a wiki and as we're using Google apps I though I'd use Google sites to host the wiki pages…

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Breakout hitbox system
I've been working on this for several weeks now and I can get it to work as It to work. It's almost there I guess there is just something I'm missing. I basically cant get the collision detection betwen the blocks and the ball to work like I wnat…
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Assigning objects to variables in java
hi im making a game of breakout and im having a problem with getting the ball to bounce off the paddle or the bricks.
Heres my code for to make the ball bounce off the bricks and paddle.
private void checkForHit(){
GObject collider =…

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Java: Breakout game, move player as I swipe?
I'm making a simple Breakout game, and so far I have created the ball and the player. I made the ball so that it moves to the position you touch, but I'd rather have it moving towards the direction I swipe. As in, the player moves along with my…

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Links within iframe to open in parent window
I am using an html form to submit information to a specific URL that is loaded in an iframe on one of my website pages on my domain. One of the html form inputs is a URL that will be posted in the iframed page when I submit the form. But when I…

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gridview breaks out of container div
I'm fairly new with divs and css so please be gentle :) I have a gridview in a div that will be wider than the screen and instead of the outer divs expanding to accommodate it, it breaks out. If I put overflow on the outer div I get a scrollbar but…

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Basic Java Graphics and coordinates not working properly
I've done quite a bit with the acm graphics library in the past and I've just begun working on the breakout problem that Stanford assigns. One of the issues which I've had several times in the past with graphics is the coordinates do not accurately…
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Break out of iFrame upon action within
I'm displaying a form within an iFrame.
The form is from another site which I don't control.
Once the form is submitted (via the submit button), I would like the user to be taken to the resulting page but don't want them to have to view that…

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How can I make an iframe breakout when a form is submitted? I do not have access to the iframe page code
I am trying to let users on my site enter their user name for an external site and then be redirected to that site to enter their password. I tried to go to the other site and view the form details and copy the hidden fields to let my form, but the…

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Java / ACM: Why doesn't my object move?
I'm currently going through Eric Robert's Art and Science of Java, which uses the ACM Java libraries. One of the exercises has the student build a clone of Breakout. I'm having issues with the animation of objects, so please have a look at this code…

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Breakout(Game Project) -Getting the ball to center the paddle -Java
My goal is getting the ball to be centered at the paddle even if the value of the ball radius were to change in future versions of the game.
My only problem is implementing the correct math formula
for the x coordinate of the gameball. I got the y…

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Why I get an error when onClick function is activated?
I created Game Over window which has Restart and Exit buttons.

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How to respawn a paddle and ball in breakout - Unity 3D C#
I'm making a breakout game in 3D and it's my first time making a game and using Unity so I'm a bit clueless. I've got to the point where my game works fine up until the ball goes off the screen and into the "dead zone".
Can someone advise how to…

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Programming Breakout in BSL
I am currently trying to code 'Breakout' in BSL but I'm stuck as I
don't know how to add a welcome and a game-over screen to my code. It is
supposed that the game starts with the welcome screen and when it is
clicked with the…

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Trying to add new levels to my Breakout game
I have a problem with my code, check the code down below, so you understand which section i'm talking about!
I'm trying to add new block levels when "block.Count == 1", you know when all my blocks are destroyed by the ball. I want it to start a new…

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