Learning something new is always challenging, GUIs are no exception.
Going through the Quill library I was able to find functions that helped me change my GUI when I clicked on something. mouse-pressed if you are interested, without the question mark.
What is interesting is I was able to create rectangles and have them change color by clicking on them. But I wanted to move on to bringing in my game-map which contained all of the important information needed for my Tic Tac Toe game. Now I needed to bring in such a map and have the GUI transform that into a visual experience.
I am proud that I have done such a thing.
(defn draw-state [state]
(q/background 245)
(let [size (size (:game state))
w (/ (q/width) size)
h (/ (q/height) size)
game (:game state)
board (convert-moves-to-board game)]
(doseq [y (range size)
x (range size)]
(let [index (+ x (* y size))
token (get board index)]
(q/fill (case token
"X" (X x y w h)
"O" (O x y w h)
[255 255 255]))
(q/rect (* x w) (* y h) w h)
(q/fill 0)))))
It is important to be resourceful because I had written a previous function that can get the size of the board, the moves present and transform that into a 1-D vector which contains the Xs and Os present, and the available moves. That function is called convert-moves-to-board.
I also created a function X and O which draw their respective letters.
What is great is based on the height, width and index, I can create the letter in its place. Which looks lovely.
The trouble is now, I am not changing boxes to colors, i am making boards. This ruined my clicking function. Of which I have been banging my head against the wall in order to find a solution.
As of right now that has not helped, but I hope soon to write another blog in which I solved this dilemma.
Until then…
Best,
Merl