Drawing blocks
Currently my new task is to create the Game of Life. Of course I am referring to the coding game of life.
This is still interesting because I am working on a brand new GUI that I have never worked with before.
I kept playing around with the Gui and I was able to come up with a great solution to cover my GUI with a grid!
(let [step 15]
(doseq [x (range 0 (q/width) step)
y (range 0 (q/height) step)]
(q/line x 0 x (q/height))
(q/line 0 y (q/width) y)))
I was able to create all of of the lines I needed.
Of course I had to look at the 5 thousand line library to find line
I’m not too inefficient I searched for line and eventually found the one I was looking for.
This is great because it provides the visual structure that I want!
However, of course the game of life is dependent on cells that are alive and cells that are dead. Their visual representations as well. I was playing around with fill to see if it could do that to my grid. But alas it was not meant to be.
I did more searching and found a few tools to help me complete my task. The logic of the Game of Life will be another blog post.
Like I said I found the tools and I am in the process of coming up with a solution.
I will list the tools to help me.
q/rect this draws rectangles. I can use this and doseq to draw my rectangles all over the GUI.
I see that rectangles can have background colors and fill colors. This will allow me to choose which colors are alive and which ones are dead.
I will now focus on implementing this, along with the logic behind . . . The GAME of LIFE!
Best,
Merl