So I think I've worked out most of the bugs from my video game but I had one mroe seemingly easy question. I calculate whether or not my character collides with the object using:

if ((p1.x + p1.w) > o1.x && p1.x < (o1.x + o1.w) && (p1.y + p1.h) > o1.y && p1.y < (o1.y + o1.h)){ //collect onigri
     incscore = true;
     score += 10;
}

where p1 is the panda character and o1 is my item to be collected, x and y are coords, and w and h are width and height respectively.

So I was wondering if I use this code from above, will the program take the width and height of the object as it appears on the screen, or will it take the width and height of the picture's size that I imported. I made my item's size 600x400, so does my code use that as width and height?

Thanks for any help guys!

Thanks, I got it to work using different parameters for the object's size.. my issue ended up being that the score increased while it was in range of the image..which was just too big, so i just scaled down the image size. And the onigri as I put it was just a typo, it is supposed to be onigiri. And it's what you're thinking, like a riceball, not something pandas like =P