Grid Timeout

June 06, 2024

Today I have been focusing more on Internal Dev stuff. I am unsure what I can say and not say here. But I did have a little but of time to work on fixing my Tic Tac Toe game.

So here are the small changes I was able to make.

Another small bug that I had, was the board had buttons that responded to a click. They responded to a click whether the player was AI or human. If it was human it would check if it could make a move there and update accordingly, for AI clicking just allowed the AI to make a move where it wanted.

Now if you read the previous post, you will know that I had problems with the AI button because one could press it multiple times to make the game do multiple moves at once.

I fixed that problem for the AI button, but my board buttons still had the same flaw.

So with the little time that I had a made a fix.

(defn human-or-ai [player]
      (let
        [moves (:moves @game-state)
         [current-player _] (get-players @game-state moves)]
        (= (:kind current-player) player)))

(defn human? [] (human-or-ai :human))
(defn ai? [] (human-or-ai :ai))

I began noticing I was using this logic multiple times, so I decided to refactor.

I changed whatever I needed to and added more tests, but the fix was simpler that I expected it to be.

(defn button [value index]
  [:input {:id       (str "-my-button-" index)
           :type     "button"
           :value    (if (number? value) "" value)
           :on-click #(when (human?)
                        (update-grid index))}])

;this below was the previous function
(defn button [value index]
      [:input {:id       (str "-my-button-" index)
               :type     "button"
               :value    (if (number? value) "" value)
               :on-click #(update-grid index)}])

Now, with my refactoring I can just add a simple when statement to fix the bugs that I had previous.

So Now I can confidently say that you canno keep clicking any button and make the game make multiple moves!

Best,

Merl