import greenfoot.*;  // (World, Actor, GreenfootImage, Greenfoot and MouseInfo)

/**
 * Base class for projectiles and other kinds of things one can shoot on his enemies.
 * 
 * @author Martin Schend, Jannis Andrija Schnitzer
 * @version 2011-01-21
 */
public class Missile  extends QuantumObject
{
    protected int side;
    protected int damage; // TODO: damage multipliers or somesuch?
    
    public void act()
    {
        super.act();
    }
    
    public void setSide(int gun_side)
    {
        side = gun_side;
    }
    public int getSide()
    {
        return side;
    }
    
    public void setDamage(int the_damage)
    {
        damage = the_damage;
    }
    public int getDamage()
    {
        return damage;
    }
    
    /**
     * Dummy hit function that allows for dummy missiles. Upon hitting a spaceship from the other side,
     * the missile is destroyed.
     * 
     * The missile itself doesn't subtract hit points from the spaceship, it's Spaceship.hit(Missile) doing that.
     * This way of coding doesn't allow for flawfully programmed Spaceship subclasses, but it's more flexible.
     * 
     * @see Spaceship#hit(Missile)
     */
    public boolean hit(Spaceship s)
    {
        if (s.getSide() == side) // the spaceship is ours
            return true;
        else
            return false; // they (should) have hitpoints subtracted!
    }
}