How can I get a RobotState of my robot?

Question

Do you know, how can I get a RobotState of my robot in Robocode? I would like to get an information for example, if my robot is active, alive, dead etc. In debug mode is it possible to see that information, but how can I get this in my code?

Answer 1

The enum RobotState is only used in the core of RoboCode. There is no getState() method for your robot. (i digged through the source code)

However: you can get all theses state in other ways:

If your robot is hitting a wall, a HitWall event is fired. you can handle those events by overriding a method in your robot class:

@Override
public void onHitWall(HitWallEvent e)
{
    //your code
}

same with hitting a robot:

@Override
public void onHitRobot(HitRobotEvent e)
{
    //your code
}

if your robot dies:

@Override
public void onRobotDeath(RobotDeathEvent event) 
{
    //salute your warrior
    //your code
}

and if it's alive it should still loop in your runs method:

@Override
public void run() {
    do {
         //here you do the normal stuff a robot does
    } while(true);
}

You can look at even more event methods in this interfaces:

• robocode.IBasicEvents
• robocode.IAdvancedEvents