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    helo guys, am building a shoot game using rectangles as my bullet. Right now when i shoot a bullet, it moves in the required direction but goes off the frame b4 am able to shoot another. I want to be able to shoot more bullets at keyPressed while the one shot already is still visible in the frame. Please help me out


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    Default Re: shooting bullet

    How have you animated the bullet? If the whole program is run in a single thread, the bullet movement probably captures the program's attention until the bullet becomes irrelevant. If in Swing, are you using a Timer? Show us some code, especially bullet animation, so that we can help.

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    try using a timer for the bullet...and as greg said show us some code

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