Chess Game, need help with secondary click

[william 01]

As the subject states I'm making a chess game and need help with the secondary click. I'm not working on the code yet but, can some one post a template or somthing, so I know how to do it when i come to it.

[Tony]

What do you mean by "secondary click", and what kind of help do you need with it?

[william 01]

I mean the click for the square the peice is moving to, I have no idea how to code it, can any one help me with this?

[william 01]

does this mean that no one can help me?

[Tony]

It's probably just a mix of a vagueness of the question and that very few people here use VB.

A question to you -- how is the second click different from the first click (selecting where the piece is moving from).

[z_cross_fire]

If I am getting your question right;

Try using a boolean? To check if it is the second or the first click...
An alternate way could be to use an integer, with odd/even denoting first/second click....

[mirhagk]

Is it a 1 person or 2 person game?

Because a 1 person game is a HUGE challenge.

[Zren]

Turing:

% You need to take into affect that a player can miss click on an invalid cell, % or even the fact the player selected an invalid to begin with. % You shouldn't be calculating the state of the game by counting the clicks, but % rather the previous state of the game (ie: your selection). type Cell :     record         x, y : int     end record var selected : Cell % When selection has no value (to compare to for if it's a "first click") selected.x := -1 selected.y := -1 % onMouseDown() -> selectCell() -> check which variable to change. % If selected isn't null, then it's the second click / selection, and you fire the % moveObject function which resets everything afterwards.

That said mirhagk's right. Chess is a massive endevor. Try starting with checkers before trying a game with 6 different movement types (vs checker's 2) (and then there's castling and en passent as well). Both have kinging/queening too, but meh.

[william 01]

Ok. I took your advice and changed to a checkers game. but now I am stuck.
this the code I've got so far to get the peice to move:

VisualBASIC:

Private Sub cmdA2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles cmdA2.Click         If Colour = 1 Then             If gameboard(0, 7) = 1 Then                 If Not Firstclick Then                     Firstclick = True                     fromRow = 0                     fromCol = 7                 End If             ElseIf gameboard(0, 7) = 0 Then             End If         ElseIf Colour = 2 Then         End If     End Sub

colour = 1 is my boolean for the player
gameboard(0,7) = 1 is checking if the square is ocupied and by whom

but I don't know where to go from here. can any one be of assistance?

[william 01]

Zren @ Wed May 18, 2011 wrote:

Turing:

% You need to take into affect that a player can miss click on an invalid cell, % or even the fact the player selected an invalid to begin with. % You shouldn't be calculating the state of the game by counting the clicks, but % rather the previous state of the game (ie: your selection). type Cell :     record         x, y : int     end record var selected : Cell % When selection has no value (to compare to for if it's a "first click") selected.x := -1 selected.y := -1 % onMouseDown() -> selectCell() -> check which variable to change. % If selected isn't null, then it's the second click / selection, and you fire the % moveObject function which resets everything afterwards.

That said mirhagk's right. Chess is a massive endevor. Try starting with checkers before trying a game with 6 different movement types (vs checker's 2) (and then there's castling and en passent as well). Both have kinging/queening too, but meh.

this is for turring not vb so it wont help me. should have noticed sooner.

[Tony]

william 01 @ Fri Jun 03, 2011 8:13 am wrote:

this is for turring not vb so it wont help me.

The exact syntax/implementation might be different, but ideas are easily transferable between languages.