Re: Pascal, Connect4 Game, 2D Array, display.

israphelr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> hello all
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>   Tstates = (empty,red,yellow);
>   Tplayers = red..yellow;
>   Tboard = ARRAY[0..ColMax, 0..RowMax] OF Tstates;
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This is a make up of the connect four board I am using.
> 
> I have displayed the board on the screen (this is a console
> application, I am *very* inexperienced with programming and I don't
> know any graphics at all )
> 
> My problem is I am not sure how once I have set an individual cell say
> ----------------------
> board : Tboard
> player 1 : Tstates
> 
> player1 := red;
> 
> board[0,1] := player1
> -----------------------------
> 
> the cell at board[0,1] becomes red, but I am not sure how to display
> that to the user.
> 
> Some suggestions would be great thanks.

If you're not comfortable with graphics, then you might want to 
represent the players by something other than color! Consider using two 
different characters, such as X and O. As you print the board on the 
screen, draw different characters to represent different states of each 
position on the board.

Have you looked at Maarten Wiltink's tic-tac-toe program? Tic-tac-toe 
isn't really much different from Connect Four.

http://www.kittensandcats.net/maarten/programming.html

-- 
Rob