/**
* This method calculates whether the ball is out of bounds or not, i.e. whether the ball has left
* the screen. If it has the method will return true as well as incrementing the score of the
* relevant player depending on which side of the screen the ball went off at.
*
* @return returns true if the balls has left the screen and false otherwise.
*/
public boolean isOutOfBounds() {
/* if the top right point of the ball is less than zero it's passed the
* left side of the screen, therefore player 2 has scored and the ball is
* out of bounds */
if (topRightPoint.getX() < (GameDimensions.FIELD_WIDTH / 2) * -1.0f) {
ScorePanel.incPlayer2Score();
return true;
} // if
/* if the bottom (bottom/top doesn't matter) left point of the ball is
* greater than the window width it's passed the right side of the
* screen, therefore player 2 has scored and the ball is out of bounds */
else if (bottomLeftPoint.getX() > (GameDimensions.FIELD_WIDTH / 2)) {
ScorePanel.incPlayer1Score();
return true;
} // else if
else return false;
} // isOutOfBounds
