Creating a game board, as a grid

Question

Hi everyone,
i have to write a cluedo like game in java for a class i'm taking. I've already created the game logic, and now i have to implemente a graphic interface using Swing: i have all the boxes contained in a large array. Now how can i print them on screen, using different boxes for each room, displaying walls, and so on, creating then the Cluedo board? Can anybody help me? Swing hasn't been covered much during the course... :(
Thanks!
Iacopo

Answer 1

Ok, i read the tutorial, though i'm stucked trying to print the board in a JFrame as a JLayeredPanel. My intention is to print in the bottom layer, the backgroud (i.e. the grid where the pawns move) and in the layer above the pawns themselves.
I wrote this code, but it just won't show the background of my boxes....please help me!
Thanks... ;-)
     private void printBoard (Tabellone t) {
          frame.remove(low);
          frame.remove(startup);
          JSplitPane splitPane = new JSplitPane();
          frame.add(splitPane);
          right.setSize(250, frame.getHeight());
          right.setOrientation(JSplitPane.VERTICAL_SPLIT);
          JLayeredPane pane=new JLayeredPane();
          pane.setLayout(new GridLayout(NUMBER_OF_FILES,NUMBER_OF_ROWS));
          pane.setSize(new Dimension(frame.getWidth(),frame.getHeight()));
          ImageIcon pias=new ImageIcon("C:/Documents and Settings/Iacopo/Desktop/piastrella.jpg");
          for (int i = 380; i >=0; i -=20) {
               for (int j = i; j < i + 20; j++) {
                    Casella cs = t.getArrayCaselle().get(j);
                    if (cs.getNome()!=""){
                         ImageIcon room=new ImageIcon("C:/Documents and Settings/Iacopo/Desktop/STANZE/"+cs.getIndex()+".jpg");
                         JLabel background=new JLabel(room);
                         JLayeredPane casella=new JLayeredPane();
                         casella.add(background,new Integer(10));
                         casella.setOpaque(true);
                         pane.add(casella);
                    } else {
                         JLabel square=new JLabel(pias);
                         square.setOpaque(true);
                         pane.add(square);
          splitPane.setRightComponent(right);
          splitPane.setLeftComponent(pane);
          frame.add(splitPane);
          frame.pack();
          frame.setLocation((int) (Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize().getWidth() / 4 - frame
                    .getWidth() / 4),
                    (int) (Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize().getHeight() / 4 - frame
                              .getHeight() / 4));
          frame.setVisible(true);
     }