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StaticBase

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Posted: 23rd Nov 2013 18:48 Edited at: 23rd Nov 2013 23:33

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Welcome to my first forum post and my first program ever! Don't you feel lucky? I've set my sights on programming a tic-tac-toe game and hell bent on seeing this through to the end.

My first step was to draw a typical grid for the game, composed of four separate lines. Each line covers the same distance and the length is based on screen size. This is so the grid may adapt to various machines. The position of each line revolves around the center of the screen.

Here is my logic behind this visually:

And below you will find my drawGrid() finction

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function drawGrid()
   function printBoard()
   centerX = screen width() / 2
   centerY = screen height() / 2
   sliceY = screen height() / 5

   squareX = centerX - sliceY
   squareY = centerY - sliceY

   line centerX - sliceY * 1.5, centerY - sliceY / 2, centerX + sliceY * 1.5, centerY - sliceY / 2
   line centerX - sliceY * 1.5, centerY + sliceY / 2, centerX + sliceY * 1.5, centerY + sliceY / 2
   line centerX - sliceY / 2, centerY - sliceY * 1.5, centerX - sliceY / 2, centerY + sliceY * 1.5
   line centerX + sliceY / 2, centerY - sliceY * 1.5, centerX + sliceY / 2, centerY + sliceY * 1.5
endfunction

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StaticBase

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Posted: 23rd Nov 2013 23:53

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On to the next part - I want this game to rely on mouse input. In fact, I will not settle for any other option. I literally figured out how to use the for .. next loop a half an hour ago and scanning through some of DBPro's help files I chose to fill each space in the grid with a box (keeping the whole game 2-dimensional still). I figure later on I can use these boxes to detect whether or not my mouse cursor is hovering and/or clicking on any of the given spaces.

So the following function draws these boxes. The boxes are intended to be transparent and completely invisible but I have neither figured out how to do that yet nor do I desire that at the moment, for debugging purposes:

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   squareX = centerX - sliceY
   squareY = centerY - sliceY

   for v = 1 to 9

      box squareX - sliceY / 2 + 2, squareY - sliceY / 2 + 2, squareX + sliceY / 2 - 2, squareY + sliceY / 2 - 2, 200, 200 ,200 ,200
      coord$ = str$(squareX)+ ", " + str$(squareY)
      text squareX - len(coord$)* 4, squareY, coord$
      dot squareX, squareY
      squareX = squareX + sliceY

      if v = 3 or v = 6
         squareY = squareY + sliceY
         squareX = centerX - sliceY
      endif

Here's another visual:

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Posted: 25th Nov 2013 13:47

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Quote: "function drawGrid()
function printBoard()"

FUNCTION is used to declare a function, if you want to call the function just type the name and parameters in brackets.

BOX is a faster drawing command than LINE: since LINE has to be able to draw in any direction it requires more calculations. To use BOX to draw straight lines you will need to give the box at least one pixel width or it wont display, I've done this for you and stored the width in a variable incase you want to scale it with the rest of the board.

All the variables declared inside your function can be constants, they will not change while the program is running, so they don't have to be inside the function where they will be initialized over and over again each time the function is called.

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#constant centerX (screen width() / 2)
#constant centerY (screen height() / 2)
#constant sliceY (screen height() / 5)

global squareX (centerX - sliceY)
global squareY (centerY - sliceY)

#constant lineWidth = 1

...

function drawGrid()
   box centerX - sliceY * 1.5, centerY - sliceY / 2, centerX + sliceY * 1.5, centerY - sliceY / 2 + lineWidth
   box centerX - sliceY * 1.5, centerY + sliceY / 2, centerX + sliceY * 1.5, centerY + sliceY / 2 + lineWidth
   box centerX - sliceY / 2, centerY - sliceY * 1.5, centerX - sliceY / 2 + lineWidth, centerY + sliceY * 1.5
   box centerX + sliceY / 2, centerY - sliceY * 1.5, centerX + sliceY / 2 + lineWidth, centerY + sliceY * 1.5
endfunction

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