Question

I am currently in the process of making a java minesweeper game for school and have run into a problem. I have created an array of 64 buttons arranged in a grid layout. The problem i am having is getting the x and y co-ordinates of a particular button pressed and sending these co-ordinates to another class which contains a 2d array. any suggestions on how i can obtain the x and y position of the button pressed???
any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated

thanks

Answer 1

Once you know the click position you can use basic math to get the square hit. Then it’s object-oriented programming to give that info to other parts of the game. You could follow a MVC (Model View Controller) pattern.

Basically your controller (main part) will register as listening to your view (your button(s)).

Here is a similar game with source code included if it helps.