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Firstly I would like to say Hi and sorry if I post in the wrong sections or get anything wrong. Anyway I have been looking at the four in a row game or connect four and was hoping somebody could send me in the right direction for help with the playing of the game for now I managed to do the board using 2 for loops but then ran into the problem of actually playing the pieces.
Thanks and Hi
Hi, could you be a bit more specific about your problem? Posting your source code might be a good idea too.
sorry I built a menu system that would call the game then built the board then got stuck with the actual placeing of the pieces for a 2 player game I was following a tutorial but it was difficult so tried to go with my own code and had a nice board but no weay of filling the spaces for the placement.
that was my board and I know i need to have something to make spaces for the pieces and then be able to drop them to the bottom counting upwards.Code:int i,j;
cout << "\n";
cout << "\t\t"<<"_____________________________";
cout << "\n\t\t"<<"| | | | | | | | ";
for ( i=0; i <7; i++)
{
cout << "\n" <<"\t\t" <<"|";
for (j=7; j > 0; j--)
cout <<"___|" ;
cout <<"\n\t | | | | | | | |";
}
cout << "\n\t\t"<<"| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |";
cout << "\n\n";
I remember i had to program a backgammon game once with ASCII output.
You should have a data structure set up, that represents the placement of the stones. If it were to be a 2D Matrix you would go through your 2 for loops and check for every row and column, if there exists a stone already. Based on that, you can either print the symbol for a stone, or not.
How to store the positions of the stones in your program?
I'd probably format it more like this:Solving this is as easy as using an if or switch statement. Instead of always outputting "___|" you do an if-test and either output "___|" or "_O_|" or "_X_|".Code:+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
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+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
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+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| | | | O | | | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| | | | X | | | |
+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
| | | | X | O | | |
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that board looks better than mine and similiar to the program I saw on here, i have a solution and i kind of understand it but considering it is supposed to easy I am lost I did see a tutorial where the place function was added into the loop for the board and "_" spaces added but again your board looks better in that thwe pieces are easy to identify. I used a switch statement in my menu but was told using for loops and incrementing was the way to go. I need to go away and bang my head a little :) so sort of if user chooses 2 place x if user chooses 3 place x and if so how would i ensure it went to the bottom and counted up in increments until full.Quote:
Originally Posted by iMalc
iMalc if i send you my code so far can you take a look for me.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluebell