Hello everyone!! I really need some help! I am trying in implement a tic tac toe game made of different classes in which the board can be expandable. I have most of it figured it out but after I ask the first player for their move it ends the game and says that player 1 won the game. I want my check Winner function in my gameboard class to check for 4 in a row no matter the size of thew board.
This is my code:
/*
The main class first asks the user to set the parameters of the board
and creates a board to the exact size the user wants. The board has to
be at least 3 by 3 or larger. Next the user is prompted to enter in their
first move. The first spot is represented by 0 and continues to go as large
as the board. It then places the player's move and then asks player 2 for
the same information. After both players make their moves it checks for a
winner or a draw. If they both return false users are able to enter a new
move until someone wins or the game ends in a draw.
*/
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
public class TicTacToeGame {
static int X = 0;
static char PLAYER1 = 'X', PLAYER2 = 'O', EMPTY = '?';
public static void main(String[] args) {
String input;
input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter an value for the height and width of the board?");
X = Integer.parseInt(input);
char[][] board = new char[X][X];
GameBoard.clearBoard(board);
do {
Player.makeMove(board, PLAYER1);
GameBoard.drawBoard(board);
if (GameBoard.checkDraw(board, X)
|| GameBoard.checkWinner()
|| GameBoard.checkWinner())
break;
Player.makeMove(board, PLAYER2);
GameBoard.drawBoard(board);
} while (!GameBoard.checkDraw(board, X)
&& !GameBoard.checkWinner()
&& !GameBoard.checkWinner());
if (GameBoard.checkWinner() == true) {
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Player 1 was won the game!");
}
else if (GameBoard.checkWinner() == true) {
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Player 2 was won the game!");
}
if (GameBoard.checkDraw(board, X) == true) {
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,"Game has ended in a TIE! Please play again.");
}
}
}
public class GameBoard {
static char PLAYER1 = 'X', PLAYER2 = 'O', EMPTY = '?';
enum State{Blank, X, O};
public static void drawBoard(char board[][]) {
// Reads in user input and displays board with players moves
// The board continues to store each move and replaces an empty space
// with the players X or O
for (int i = 0; i < board.length; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < board.length; j++)
System.out.print(" " + board[i][j] + " "); // prints out each space and places a space between each space to make the board easier to read
System.out.print("\n");
}
System.out.print("\n");
}
public static void clearBoard(char board[][]) {
// Asks user for input on what the height and width of the board with be
// and then creates an EMPTY board
for (int i = 0; i < board.length; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < board.length; j++) {
board[i][j] = EMPTY; //places a ? mark in each empty spot
}
}
}
public static boolean checkWinner() {
int n = 4;
State[][] board = new State[n][n];
int moveCount = 0;
int x = 0, y = 0;
State s = null;
if(board[x][y] == State.Blank){
board[x][y] = s;
}
moveCount++;
//check end conditions
//check col
for(int i = 0; i < n; i++){
if(board[x][i] != s)
return false;
if(i == n-1){
return true;
}
}
//check row
for(int i = 0; i < n; i++){
if(board[i][y] != s)
return false;
if(i == n-1){
return true;
}
}
//check diag
if(x == y){
//we're on a diagonal
for(int i = 0; i < n; i++){
if(board[i][i] != s)
return false;
if(i == n-1){
return true;
}
}
}
//check anti diag (thanks rampion)
for(int i = 0;i<n;i++){
if(board[i][(n-1)-i] != s)
return false;
if(i == n-1){
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
public static boolean checkDraw(char board[][], int X) {
// First counts up how many moves have been made and then compare
// the count to height * width to see if there is any space left.
int count = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < board.length; i++) {
for (int j = 0; j < board.length; j++) {
if (board[i][j] == PLAYER1 || board[i][j] == PLAYER2)
count++;
}
}
if (count == X * X)
return true;
else
return false;
}
}
import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
public class Player {
public static void makeMove(char board[][], char player) {
//Is called by the main class and is used to find out where the user would like to place their game piece
int x = 0, y = 0;
String input;
input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter an X value");
x = Integer.parseInt(input); // user input on what row they would like
input = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter an Y value");
y = Integer.parseInt(input); //user input on what column they would like
board[x][y] = player; //sets the board to the correct location
}
}
amullen98 0 Newbie Poster
Taywin 312 Posting Virtuoso
Your checkWinner() method does not accept the current state of the board, but always create a new local board inside the method. As a result, you are NOT checking the board status. Also, you must only READ the data from the board variable and check for horizontal, vertical, and diagonal consecutive marks only! Do not attempt to assign any value to it. Currently, you are doing that...
Suggestions...
1)The checkWinner() should return a value, such as 'X', 'O', 'D', or ''. If 'X', the player1 wins, 'O', the player2 wins, 'D' is a draw, and '' means the game is still going on.
2)If you accomplish #1, you can eliminate checkDraw() method because it is redundant.
3)If you accomplish #1, you will not need to keep calling checkWinner() again and again to display the result.
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