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Frank

Fri Jun 04, 2004 4:42 pm


I need help on minesweeper game

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I've done quite a bit.  My problem is that I cant get my bombs to stay thier enitial value.  I've made a function to place 10 random bombs on the 8 by 8 tile playing field.  I placed the bomb function inside my grid function so that they are placed on top off the board but under the tiles.  When you click a tile it hides and the square of the board is revealed.  If a bomb is there it will show it but when you go to click another tile all the bombs randomize in a new location.

To sum it all up: I need my bombs to stay at thier random spots.


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Tony

Fri Jun 04, 2004 5:27 pm



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that's because you locate your bombs every time you draw your grid... :? So they end up getting new random values. Drawing bombs and randomly placing them should be separate procedures.

maybe [url=http://www.compsci.ca/v2/viewtopic.php?t=4744]this will give you some ideas


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SuperGenius

Fri Jun 04, 2004 7:25 pm



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just make sure that you declare the random positions outside any loops, so that the randint statements will only be called once per round.


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Frank

Fri Jun 04, 2004 7:39 pm


hmmm

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Your help is fine, yes. But I can't just declare the mines outside a loop.  Every time you press a GUI.button it hides it and I have to refresh my grid and refresh the rest of the buttons on top of that using GUI.Refresh.  In order to keep my bombs there I need to refresh them too but everytime I refresh they go in new random spots.  I need to fix it so that the bombslocate procedure is called once and the exact postion of those bombs are refreshed instead of looping the whole procedure again.

I hope you understand what I mean.


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Tony

Fri Jun 04, 2004 8:00 pm



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procedure bomblocate
    for f : 1 .. 10
        randint (ran, 1, 8)
        randint (ran2, 1, 8)
        drawfilloval (ran * 30 - 15, ran2 * 30 - 15, 4, 4, 7)
        bombs (ran, ran2) := 1
    end for
end bomblocate

that's bad :lol: 

you see how you just draw a bomb in a random place every time? yeah... don't do that... instead you save the location of the bomb and draw that... kinda like what you're doing now with bombs array... just

for i:1..10
for j:1..10
if bombs(i,j) = 1 then
%draw bomb at (i,j) spot
end if
end for
end for


though obviously there're better ways


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xxxxx

Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:56 pm


RE:I need help on minesweeper game

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were do you put that code