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You are using a while loop. That causes that your actor climbes up the liane in only one act. If you don't use any loops but just use an if clause your actor will climb up 10 cells every act.

You are probably just missing some 'import' statements that are needed for some of the objects you use. For example, Color.Black is a field in the Color class; so you need to 'import java.awt.Color;' to have access to it. The 'add' method is a List method, but in itself does not require you to import 'java.util.List'. However, if you use a 'List' anywhere in your code, you will have to.

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That isKey and getKey will do the job! Thnx ;-)

My bad.

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"if (someObject instanceof SubclassName);" should be sufficient. I'm just seeing if the object is a certain class, and if it is, then get certain information and save it in a specific format as a String for an algorithm.

Using 'setLocation(getX(), getY()-getImage().getHeight()/2' every act cycle will indeed make your character go up the screen half its height every act cycle. You need to get a reference to that actor it is following (I will call it 'followed') and use 'followed.getX()' and 'followed.getY()-getImage().getHeight()/2'.

Okay one more thing. How are things with releases in java? Do I have to do it manually or is there some kind of autorelease behind? I have never thought of this when programming in Greenfoot.

Without relying on tricks, take a look at the FontMetrics class and its charsWidth method. It can be complicated when using several substrings, but works great for broader applications of the problem. Most of my GUI components in my GUI Components scenario use it.

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Very straightforward. Thank you for your help ^_^