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how will i repeat my whole game program?

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Re: how will i repeat my whole game program?

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Sep 18th, 2004

psylocke... you should really learn to program more modularly & object-orientated-ly. If you had, making little modifications to your program (and controlling the flow of the program) would be much easier.

But as it looks now... I think you should switch your program to the following structure:

a create() method in which you 'create' everything (all the new labels etc.)
a reset() method in which you set all values, fields, label names, guesses etc. to their initial (pre-game) values
a start() method (same as you already have)

Then get your YES button ActionListener to call only the init() method and then the start() method.

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Re: how will i repeat my whole game program?

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Sep 18th, 2004

oops, couldn't edit my post.

Ignore the last bit. So, basically.. you get your applet's init() method to call all three above-mentioned methods. And get your YES button ActionListener to call the reset() and start() methods only.

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Re: how will i repeat my whole game program?

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Sep 18th, 2004

Since everything here appears to be in one method, I get the impression that psylocke is brand new to Java and hasn't yet learned how to create multiple methods and classes. Am I right?

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Re: how will i repeat my whole game program?

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Sep 18th, 2004

psylocke,

Another suggestion: Since you have so many related variables (i.e. Label peglbl1, peglbl2, peglbl3) it may make your code neater if you used arrays.

Instead of multiple Label statements, do this:

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Label[] pegLabel = new Label[15];
 
for (int i = 0; i < pegLabel.length; i++) {
    pegLabel[i] = new Label("");
    pegLabel.setBackground(Color.DARK_GRAY);
    add(pegLabel[i])
}
 
// - or if you have a string table 'pegStrings' with all the initial
// strings of the labels, you could do this:
for (int i = 0; i < pegLabel.length; i++)
   pegLabel[i] = new Label(pegStrings[i]);
Label[] pegLabel = new Label[15];

for (int i = 0; i < pegLabel.length; i++) {
    pegLabel[i] = new Label("");
    pegLabel.setBackground(Color.DARK_GRAY);
    add(pegLabel[i])
}

// - or if you have a string table 'pegStrings' with all the initial
// strings of the labels, you could do this:
for (int i = 0; i < pegLabel.length; i++)
   pegLabel[i] = new Label(pegStrings[i]);

Then instead of what you do in your action listener

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 if(tri==1)
peglbl1.setBackground(Color.GREEN);
else if(tri==2)
peglbl2.setBackground(Color.GREEN);
else if(tri==3)
peglbl3.setBackground(Color.GREEN);
 if(tri==1)
peglbl1.setBackground(Color.GREEN);
else if(tri==2)
peglbl2.setBackground(Color.GREEN);
else if(tri==3)
peglbl3.setBackground(Color.GREEN);

You can do this:

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pegLabel[tri].setBackground(Color.GREEN);
pegLabel[tri].setBackground(Color.GREEN);

Let us know if this makes sense. I'm not sure what you have learned. Definitely give arrays a try. It should tidy up your code much.

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Re: how will i repeat my whole game program?

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Sep 19th, 2004

hi cosi, thanks for the big help. i really know that there is a way to make this short using arrays but i dont know how to do that i cant find reference material for this during that time, coz i was in a rush doing this project. your recommendations are all great this exactly what i also wanted to know...THANK U so much cosi. muah

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Re: how will i repeat my whole game program?

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Sep 20th, 2004

apcxpc,

thanks for the answers, thanks a lot...thats all i can say right now. thanks for the help really.

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Re: how will i repeat my whole game program?

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Originally Posted by cscgal

Since everything here appears to be in one method, I get the impression that psylocke is brand new to Java and hasn't yet learned how to create multiple methods and classes. Am I right?

yah thats right...but i know i can be good in java in time, it will be because of this group and my eagerness to learn the language.