Battleships game

[ragaman123]

Hello there,

I have currently started a project in java, a battleships game. I am having trouble deciding how to deploy the grid and have the pictures of ships hidden under each picture of blue square which represents the sea. Can anybody out there give me some helpful pointers? Much appreciated,
thanks,
Ragaman

[r035198x]

Hello there,

I have currently started a project in java, a battleships game. I am having trouble deciding how to deploy the grid and have the pictures of ships hidden under each picture of blue square which represents the sea. Can anybody out there give me some helpful pointers? Much appreciated,
thanks,
Ragaman

Do you know how to animations in applets?

[mharrison]

One method could be to have a grid of JButton objects. You could have say a two dimensional array of JButtons and then when a user clicks on the JButton, the appropriate image/icon of either the ship or nothing eg a hole in the water appears.

To make these images appear you will need to know something about ActionListeners and also Image creation/manipulation

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/events/actionlistener. html

is a good starting place.

To create a two dimensional array of JButtons you could do something like this

        JButton[][] battleshipgrid = new JButton[10][10];
        for(int i=0; i < battleshipgrid.length; i++) {
            for(int j=0; j < battleshipgrid.length; j++) {
                // create new button with a label. Can use an Icon here too.
                battleshipgrid[i][j] = new JButton("My Button"));
            }
        }

[ragaman123]

Thanks a million man, I appreciate it, i will give it a go.

Regards,

Ragaman

[ragaman123]

Hello everyone,

I am still working on my battleships project and have been doing some research into how i am going to implement it. I have been working with the idea of having a 2d grid of JButtons and have been looking into the graphics tutorials on the sun wesite but i have been advised that i would not need any of this (such as AlphaComposite) to display and change the display of the sea, ships etc. If so, does anyone have any ideas how to display the images, as in, is there a way of having the images appear in the JButtons themselves?And then change them?

Thanks a million,

Ragaman