Day 3: Changes in board...

While I was thinking how to start with the engine I saw that some changes were needed. For example, I need a Board object for the engine, but at start I don't know the size of the board, so I created an empty constructor and then I assign the board that the game flow uses. A good idea (maybe, I am not sure yet, but let's believe in intuition), was to quit the board initializacion from the parametrized constructor, so I created a method boardInitialization(int). It is now like this: package Elements; import java.util.ArrayList; public final class Board { private ArrayList<integer> mainBoard=new ArrayList<>(); public Board(){ //Empty constructor } public Board(int x){ //Constructor, also intialices the go board. this.initialiceBoard(x); } public ArrayList<integer> getMainBoard(){ //Returns the mainBoard return this.mainBoard; } public void initialiceBoard(int x){ //This is to initialice the board int i; int totalpositions=(x+2)*(x+1)+1; //for example in 19x19 board it will be 21*20+1 for(i=0;i<=x;i++){ //Position 0 to x will contain an non-playable stone this.mainBoard.add(new Integer(3)); } for(i=x+1;i<=(x+1)*(x+1);i++){ //It will go from x+1 (the first element of the "second row" //to the last element of the "penultimate row" of the board //for example in 6x6 it will go from the 7th. element to 49th. //element in the array). if(i%(x+1)==0){ //The borders are in positions where i%(x+1) is 0 //so, there should be a non playable Stone this.mainBoard.add(new Integer(3)); }else{ //if not, empty place. this.mainBoard.add(new Integer(0)); } } for(i=(x+1)*(x+1)+1;i<=(x+2)*(x+1);i++){ //Last row, all unplayable stones this.mainBoard.add(new Integer(3)); } } }
Another thing that I changes was the main class. The game loop should not be in the main class, the main class only calls a "game loop" class, so now I have gameLoop class. package Start; import Elements.Board; import Showing.Console; public class MainLoop { public void startGame(){ int boardSize=19; //in the future there will be an input Board board=new Board(boardSize); Console console=new Console(); console.showBoard(board,boardSize); } } And main now is this: package Start; public class Principal { /** * @param args the command line arguments */ public static void main(String[] args) { MainLoop mainloop = new MainLoop(); mainloop.startGame(); } }