[SOLVED] How to create a Grid?

[Nakira]

Hi all again. Not long been given some work to do by the University but I'm having trouble setting up my grid for the game to play on. I have to create a terminal based snake game with a grid sized 31x31. However, i haven't a clue how to create a grid.
Any help here would be grateful.
Thanks in advance.
Nak.

[Fubarable]

i haven't a clue how to create a grid.

and I'm afraid to say that neither do I. You may wish to provide more information, a lot more.

[Nakira]

theres not really much more i could say. Its a Snake game similar to the snake games on the phones. :)
I need to create a simple grid for the game to basically be set on. The grid will have to be 31x31.
The snake will move one space at a time i think and will eventually eat some food which is then randomly placed on the grid somewhere else.
Thats the basis of level 1 out of 5. But at the moment all i need to do is create a 2D grid for it all to go onto. I think i would have to use arrays. But im not sure how to create a grid using them.

[Norm]

Are you talking about a GUI thing or an internal container in your program?

In the program you could use a 2 dim array:
Type[][] twoDim = new Type[31][31]; // 31x31 grid

[Fubarable]

Either way, they'd be best off creating an internal "data" grid first and then could use this in a GUI or (my guess is more likely given her first post where she mentions "terminal") in console output.

[Nakira]

Either way, they'd be best off creating an internal "data" grid first and then could use this in a GUI or (my guess is more likely given her first post where she mentions "terminal") in console output.

Just to let you know this "her" is a he... lol.

but yeah I'll need to use a 2d array i think. it's just a game my lecturer wants me to make for my project. Thanks for your help I'll post back if i get stuck again. :)

[Nakira]

Is there anyway to get the grid to display? i would also like your opinion on my basic code so far. I'm not entirely sure if I'm going about this the right way. If you see something that would be best done differently then feel free to comment.

public class SnakeGame
{
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		
	}

	public class Grid
	{
		Grid[][] twoDimGrid = new Grid[31][31]; // 31x31 grid
	}

	public class Snake
	{
		//Creating the different parts of the snake(Head and main body)
		char SnakeHead = '*';
		char Snake = '~';
	}
}

[Norm]

Is there anyway to get the grid to display?

Lots of ways. What are your requirements? Do you have a design?
Where/how do you want to display? Using println() or in a GUI?

[Nakira]

Just using print() would be good enough. I'm basically creating a terminal game of Snake. However, each time the snake moves the grid wont auto update. Is there someway of refreshing it after every key press?

[Norm]

creating a terminal game

By terminal I thought you meant that the output was via println() to a console screen.

someway of refreshing it after every key press

No, you would have to print the whole grid again.

You'll want to look into using a GUI. One way would be to use a JPanel, override its paintComponent() method and draw the grid,etc using the appropriate Graphics draw... method.
There are several examples here on how to do that. Use search for paintComponent. Copy a simple one to your PC and play with it to see how it works.

[Nakira]

By terminal I thought you meant that the output was via println() to a console screen.

No, you would have to print the whole grid again.

You'll want to look into using a GUI. One way would be to use a JPanel, override its paintComponent() method and draw the grid,etc using the appropriate Graphics draw... method.
There are several examples here on how to do that. Use search for paintComponent. Copy a simple one to your PC and play with it to see how it works.

Thanks for your help. its greatly appreciated.

[Nakira]

Argh. Call me stupid if you like, but i cannot get the grid to print to the terminal. my grid is still empty but it should still work just not display anything.
Is it possible to have more help on printing this grid please?

Here is what i've got so far:

public class SnakeGame
{
	//create main method(All Java prgrams need one to run ;))
	public static void main(String[] args)
	{
		
	}
	//Create a 2D grid for the game to be played on
	public class Grid
	{
		Grid[][] twoDimGrid = new Grid[31][31]; // 31x31 grid
	}
	void print()
	{
		print(Grid.twoDimGrid(this));
	}
}