How to represent a Board Panel in Java for a game ?
- by FILIaS
I wanna fix a 2D board for a game. I've already fixed other panels for the Gui and everything goes well. But the panel for the board cant be printed on the window. I'm a bit confused about it as i think i've followed the same ideas as for the others panels i need.
Here's what i've done:
EDIT:*EDIT*
what i'm trying to do is fix a board panel for the game according to the dimensions of the it,hold every square in an array in order to use it after wherever it;s needed. I draw each little square of it with the method draw and put it back to the panel. So, each square on the board is a panel. This is the idea. But as u can see. There are troubles/errors on it.
EDIT: code updated.
just found a part of the problem. i thought first that i had set background to squared, but i didnt. with this one it appears on the panel a wide black "column". Unfortunately,still none squares. :(
One More EDIT:
Also,i realized that draw method is never called. when i put the draw method in the following method i can see the squares but they remain small. I redefine them with setSize but still no change.
How can I use paint method to edit the panels properly???? As it is now it can't. Even it can't return an object(eg panel) as it's polymorphic void!
/**
*Method used to construct the square in the area of the
*gui's grid. In this stage a GUISquare array is being constructed,
* used in the whole game as
*a mean of changing a square graphical state.
*@param squares is the squares array from whom the gui grid will be
*constructed.
*@see getSquare about the correspondance beetween a squareModel and
* a GUISquare.
*/
private void initBoardPanel(SquareModel[][] squares){
BoardPanel.setLayout(new GridLayout(height ,width )); //set layout
SquareRenderer[][] Squares;
JPanel[][] grid;
Squares=new GUISquare[height][width()];
grid=new JPanel[height()][width()];
for (int i=0; i<height(); i++){
for (int j=0; j<width() ; j++){
SquareRenderer kou=new SquareRenderer(i,j);
kou.setSquare(myGame.getSquares()[i][j]);
//NOTE: THE FOLLOWING DRAW METHOD CANT BE CALLED!!!?
if (myGame.getSquares()[i][j] instanceof SimpleSq ){
kou .paintPanel(i,j,"");}
else if (myGame.getSquares()[i][j] instanceof ActionSq )
{ kou .paintPanel(i,j);
}
//JUST BECAUSE DRAW CANT BE CALLED I PUT ITS CODE HERE:
//JUST TO CHECK:
JPanel panel = new JPanel();
panel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
JLabel label1 = new JLabel("Move To "+myGame.getSquares()[i][j].getGoTo());
JLabel label2 = new JLabel(""+myGame.getSquares()[i][j].getSquare());
panel.setBackground(Color.ORANGE);
panel.add(label2, BorderLayout.NORTH);
panel.add(label1, BorderLayout.CENTER);
panel.setSize(250,250);
///////// <--until here ---paint method<---
kou.add(panel);
kou.setVisible(true);
kou.setBackground(Color.BLACK);
Squares[i][j]= kou;
BoardPanel.add(kou);
BoardPanel.setVisible(true);
BoardPanel.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
}
}
this.add(BoardPanel,BorderLayout.WEST);
// this.pack(); //sets appropriate size for frame
this.setVisible(true); //makes frame visible
}
IMPLEMENTED BY SQUARERENDERER:
/**
* Transformer for Snake/Ladder
* <br>This method is used to display a square on the screen.
*/
public void paintPanel(int i,int j) {
JPanel panel = new JPanel();
panel.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
JLabel label1 = new JLabel("Move To"+myGame.getSquares()[i][j].getGoTo());
JLabel label2 = new JLabel(""+myGame.getSquares()[i][j].getSquare());
JSeparator CellSeparator = new JSeparator(orientation);
panel.add(CellSeparator);
panel.setForeground(Color.ORANGE);
panel.add(label2, BorderLayout.NORTH);
panel.add(label1, BorderLayout.CENTER);
}
