Question

Alright so I am making a simple Tic Tac Toe program. Right now I am working on checking where the mouse clicked, using MouseListener, and seeing in which 1 of 9 spaces the mouse clicked. I wanted to check to make sure that the rectangle checking was working so everytime the mouse clicked the console would display a String of 9 letters. The letters are e = empty x = X o = O. But it doesnt seem that the rectangle doesn’t seem to contain any coordinates . Here is some snippets of code:

package com.blackattack.tictactoe;

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.awt.event.MouseListener;

import javax.swing.JPanel;

public class TicTacToePanel extends JPanel implements MouseListener {

    Graphics2D g2d;
    Rectangle[] bounds = new Rectangle[9];
    TicTacToeLogic board = new TicTacToeLogic();
    int STATE = 0;
    final int PLAYING = 0;
    final int LOSS = 1;
    final int WIN = 2;
    Win w = new Win(false, "e");



    public TicTacToePanel() {
        super();
        addMouseListener(this);

        bounds[0] = new Rectangle(0, 0, getWidth()/3, getHeight()/3);
        bounds[1] = new Rectangle(getWidth()/3, 0, getWidth()/3, getHeight()/3);
        bounds[2] = new Rectangle((getWidth()/3)*2, 0, getWidth()/3, getHeight()/3);

        bounds[3] = new Rectangle(0, getHeight()/3, getWidth()/3, getHeight()/3);
        bounds[4] = new Rectangle(getWidth()/3, getHeight()/3, getWidth()/3, getHeight()/3);
        bounds[5] = new Rectangle((getWidth()/3)*2, getHeight()/3, getWidth()/3, getHeight()/3);

        bounds[6] = new Rectangle(0, getHeight()/3, (getWidth()/3)*2, getHeight()/3);
        bounds[7] = new Rectangle(getWidth()/3, (getHeight()/3)*2, getWidth()/3, getHeight()/3);
        bounds[8] = new Rectangle((getWidth()/3)*2, (getHeight()/3)*2, getWidth()/3, getHeight()/3);
    }
//paintComponent would be here
@Override
    public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
        int x = getX();
        int y = getY();
        if(bounds[0].contains(x, y)) {
            board.changeState(0, "x");
            w = board.isWin();
            board.aiPlayerChoose();
            w = board.isWin();
        }
        if(bounds[1].contains(x, y)) {
            board.changeState(1, "x");
            w = board.isWin();
            board.aiPlayerChoose();
            w = board.isWin();
        }
        if(bounds[2].contains(x, y)) {
            board.changeState(2, "x");
            w = board.isWin();
            board.aiPlayerChoose();
            w = board.isWin();
        }
        if(bounds[3].contains(x, y)) {
            board.changeState(3, "x");
            w = board.isWin();
            board.aiPlayerChoose();
            w = board.isWin();
        }
        if(bounds[4].contains(x, y)) {
            board.changeState(4, "x");
            w = board.isWin();
            board.aiPlayerChoose();
            w = board.isWin();
        }
        if(bounds[5].contains(x, y)) {
            board.changeState(5, "x");
            w = board.isWin();
            board.aiPlayerChoose();
            w = board.isWin();
        }
        if(bounds[6].contains(x, y)) {
            board.changeState(6, "x");
            w = board.isWin();
            board.aiPlayerChoose();
            w = board.isWin();
        }
        if(bounds[7].contains(x, y)) {
            board.changeState(7, "x");
            w = board.isWin();
            board.aiPlayerChoose();
            w = board.isWin();
        }
        if(bounds[8].contains(x, y)) {
            board.changeState(8, "x");
            w = board.isWin();
            board.aiPlayerChoose();
            w = board.isWin();
        }
        System.out.println(board.board[0] + " " + board.board[1] + " " + board.board[2] + " " + board.board[3] + " " + board.board[4] + " " + board.board[5] + " " + board.board[6] + " " + board.board[7] + " " + board.board[8]);

    }

So here I check to see if the mouse clicked in 1 of the 9 spaces and I output the “game board” Here is part of TicTacToeLogic so you can have a better understanding:

public class TicTacToeLogic {

    String[] board = { "e", "e", "e", "e", "e", "e", "e", "e", "e" };

    public TicTacToeLogic() {

    }

    public void changeState(int pos, String val) {
        board[pos] = val;
    }

    public void aiPlayerChoose() {
        boolean ready = true;
        while (ready) {
            Random r = new Random();
            int which = r.nextInt(8);
            if (board[which].equals("e")) {
                board[which] = "o";
                ready = false;
            }
        }
    }
}

I can’t seem to pinpoint what the problem is. When ever i print out board[n] it always comes up as a bunch of e’s. Does it have something to do with me calling getWidth and getHeight in the constructor? Thanks in advanced,

Andrew

Answer 1

getWidth() and getHeight() will return 0 when you’re in the constructor. Those values get set by the LayoutManager when the window gets laid out.

You need to calculate your bounds from within mouseClicked.