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Ball bounces just above paddle
detectCollision assumes that the width of your ball is RADIUS*2. You have initialized your ball with a width of RADIUS. So detectCollision will return a collision before the ball hits the paddle.
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Segmentation Fault w/paddle movement (already changed initPaddle return)
GRect initPaddle(GWindow window) your returning a newGRect, does that even compile. You should return the paddle from the line with GRect paddle = newGRect((getWidth(window) - PWT)/2 , PY, PWT, PHT);
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Polygon paddle instead of rect
After a bit of playing with code, it turns out that the problem is caused by getGObjectAt. It doesn't return a pointer to your paddle even though it's in the specified location. Rather, it returns ...
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detect collision paddle Pset4
One thing that had me for a bit was my functions for instantiating the paddle and the ball.
since we have to program movement inside of main we want ball and paddle exist inside of that function.
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detect collision paddle Pset4
Try to change the == in the object detection section with either >= or <=
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