TicTacToe Game

[Danny Roberts]

Hello, i'm having problems understanding why one class isn't working properly with another. When i run the classes by themselves everything works properly. However, when i run the MainClass(which should initialized the next class which then initialized the next class?) i get a blank screen. Why is this?


TAB 1:

import java.awt.event.MouseListener;

import acm.program.GraphicsProgram;

public class MainClass extends GraphicsProgram implements MouseListener {

	public void run() {
		
		GameBoard ref = new GameBoard();
		ref.run();
		
		
	}
}

TAB 2:

import java.awt.event.MouseListener;

import acm.program.GraphicsProgram;


import java.awt.Color;

import acm.graphics.GLine;
import acm.graphics.GOval;
import acm.graphics.GRect;
import acm.program.GraphicsProgram;

public class GameBoard extends GraphicsProgram implements MouseListener {
	
	
	
	public void run(){
		
		createGameBoard(); 
		ClickToPlayPiece ref1 = new ClickToPlayPiece();
		ref1.run();
	}
	
	public void createGameBoard() {
		
		GRect Squares[] = new GRect[9];
		Squares[0] = new GRect(50,50);
		add(Squares[0],0,0);
		
		Squares[1] = new GRect(50,50);
		add(Squares[1],50,0);
		
		Squares[2] = new GRect(50,50);
		add(Squares[2],100,0);
		
		Squares[3] = new GRect(50,50);
		add(Squares[3],0,50);
		
		Squares[4] = new GRect(50,50);
		add(Squares[4],50,50);
		
		Squares[5] = new GRect(50,50);
		add(Squares[5],100,50);
		
		Squares[6] = new GRect(50,50);
		add(Squares[6],0,100);
		
		Squares[7] = new GRect(50,50);
		add(Squares[7],50,100);
		
		Squares[8] = new GRect(50,50);
		add(Squares[8],100,100);	
	
		
	}
	
	
}

TAB 3:


import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseListener;

import acm.graphics.GOval;
import acm.program.GraphicsProgram;

public class ClickToPlayPiece extends GraphicsProgram implements MouseListener  {

	public void run() {
		addMouseListeners(); 
		
	}
	public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
		GOval pieceOne = new GOval(40,40);
		add(pieceOne, e.getX(), e.getY());
		
		
	}
}

[Ulf Dittmer]

I'm sure you can click on it, but if you expect some kind of response then you will have to write a GUI listener to make that happen. It looks as if the ClickToPlayPiece class is meant to do that, but from the code it's not clear whether it is being used - does calling the addMouseListeners method cause the object to be added as listener to the component that receives clicks? Is the mouseClicked method ever actually invoked at runtime? (Add logging to it to find out.)

[Danny Roberts]

The addMouseListeners method automatically calls the mouseClicked method when the mouse is clicked(asynchronous event i think it's called). So i don't think theres anything wrong with the code, it's just like the question i had yesterday in the other thread, why doesn't MainClass initialize the GameBoard class which then should initialize the ClickToPlayPiece class??? They all should work together,no? Because that's the point of OOP if i'm not mistaken?

[Ulf Dittmer]

... and I have the same answer as in that thread: that depends on how the GraphicsProgram class is supposed to work, and we have no clue about that. For example, I would guess that it is wrong to have more than one class extend it (as this code here does), but we just don't know.