Tic Tac Toe game using Graphs

Does anyone know of an open-source implementation of Tic-Tac-Toe using Graphs? I'm reading through Michael Mann's Data Structures and Other Objects Using Java book and in chapter 14, he briefly mentions the use of directed graphs in implementing a game of Tic Tac Toe. I'm interested in seeing how one would implement something of this sort (and no, it's not a homework assignment).
If someone would be kind enough as to post a link to a site that offers mini-java applications, along with code that novice developers such as myself can traverse, please do so.
Thanks in advance.

As an added though, there's really no need to for each node to keep track of incoming connections, only outgoing ones. What I, personally would do is keep an array of 8 outgoing connections, one for each direction. If no connection was there, then that element in the array would be null. If a connection was there, then that element would be an edge connecting to another node, or the other node itself (depending on whether or not you explicitly implemented 'edges' in your graph).
That way, you could do something like:
    Node    s         = getOneOfTheEdgeNodes();
    boolean hasWinner = false;    
    try {
        for (int i = 0; i < 8; i ++) {
            if (s.getOutgoing(i).getNode().getOutgoing(i).getNode() != null) {
                hasWinner = true;
                break;
    } catch (NullPointerException npx) {
        // No winner.
    if (hasWinner)
        System.out.println(s.getPlayer() + " has won");Yeah, that's a shitty example, but hopefully you get my drift.
Jason

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    hey. hope u guys can help me out...
    having a problem with my tic tac toe program...
    i have 2 problems.
    1) got the "X" and "O" to appear using a flag(teacher didn't explain)
    using code like this
    if (jb == button[0]){
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    flag = (flag==0)?1:0;
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    2) found this code in javascript online and i want to do what it does in java code
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    alert("You Win!");
    reset();
    how would i do that?
    thanks for the help.

    ok here's my code:
    //TTT.java
    import javax.swing.*;
    import java.awt.*;
    import java .awt.event.*;
    public class TTT extends JFrame
                        implements WindowListener, ActionListener
    private JFrame frFirst;
    private Container cnFirst,cnSecond;
    private     JButton button[]=new JButton[9];
    private JButton btnNewGame,btnExit;
    private FlowLayout southLayout;
    private JPanel southPanel;
    private int flag;
    public TTT()
                   frFirst=new JFrame ("Michael's Tic Tac Toe Game!");
                   cnFirst=frFirst.getContentPane();
                   cnFirst.setLayout (new GridLayout (4,4));
                   cnFirst.setBackground(Color.green);
              for(int i=0;i<button.length;i++)
                        button[i] = new JButton();
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                        flag=0;
              southPanel = new JPanel ();
              btnNewGame = new JButton ("New Game");
              southPanel.add (btnNewGame);
              btnExit = new JButton ("EXIT");
              southPanel.add (btnExit);
              frFirst.add (southPanel,BorderLayout.SOUTH);
              frFirst.setLocation(200, 200);
              frFirst.setSize(400,400);
              frFirst.setResizable(false);
              frFirst.setVisible(true);
              this.frFirst.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
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                   frFirst.addWindowListener(this);
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                   button[1].addActionListener(this);
                   button[2].addActionListener(this);
                   button[3].addActionListener(this);
                   button[4].addActionListener(this);
                   button[5].addActionListener(this);
                   button[6].addActionListener(this);
                   button[7].addActionListener(this);
                   button[8].addActionListener(this);
                   btnNewGame.addActionListener (this);
                   btnExit.addActionListener (this);
         //define methods of WindowListener
    public void windowOpened(WindowEvent we)
         public void windowClosing(WindowEvent we)
         System.exit(0);
         public void windowClosed(WindowEvent we)
         public void windowIconified(WindowEvent we)
         public void windowDeiconified(WindowEvent we)
         public void windowActivated(WindowEvent we)
         public void windowDeactivated(WindowEvent we)
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         Object obj = ae.getSource();
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                   JButton jb = (JButton)obj;
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                        if (flag==0)
                        button[0].setText("X");
                   else
                        button[0].setText("O");
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                        flag = (flag==0)?1:0;
                   if(jb==button[1])
                        if (flag==0)
                        button[1].setText("X");
                   else
                        button[1].setText("O");
                        //toggle
                        flag = (flag==0)?1:0;
                   if(jb==button[2])
                        if (flag==0)
                        button[2].setText("X");
                   else
                        button[2].setText("O");
                        //toggle
                        flag = (flag==0)?1:0;
                   if(jb==button[3])
                        if (flag==0)
                        button[3].setText("X");
                   else
                        button[3].setText("O");
                        //toggle
                        flag = (flag==0)?1:0;
                   if(jb==button[4])
                        if (flag==0)
                        button[4].setText("X");
                   else
                        button[4].setText("O");
                        //toggle
                        flag = (flag==0)?1:0;
                   if(jb==button[5])
                        if (flag==0)
                        button[5].setText("X");
                   else
                        button[5].setText("O");
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                        flag = (flag==0)?1:0;
                   if(jb==button[6])
                        if (flag==0)
                        button[6].setText("X");
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                        button[6].setText("O");
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                        button[7].setText("X");
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                        flag = (flag==0)?1:0;
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                        flag = (flag==0)?1:0;
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    add code to reset game
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         System.exit(0);
              }     //end of if instanceof
    public static void main(String[]args)
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  • Need help/advice with tic tac toe game

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              g.drawString("B",40,100);
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              g.drawRect(110,50,30,30);
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                   spaceA3(g);
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                   spaceB2(g);
                   spaceB3(g);
                   spaceC1(g);
                   spaceC2(g);
                   spaceC3(g);
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                   gameBoard[0][0] = "X";
                   g.drawString("X",65,65);
                   player1 = false;
                   return;
                   else
                   if(!player1){
                   gameBoard[0][0] = "O";
                   g.drawString("O",65,65);
                   player1 = true;
                   return;
              } // end of A1
              else
              if(move == "A2"){
                   spaceA1(g);
                   spaceA3(g);
                   spaceB1(g);
                   spaceB2(g);
                   spaceB3(g);
                   spaceC1(g);
                   spaceC2(g);
                   spaceC3(g);
                   if(player1){
                   gameBoard[0][1] = "X";     
                   g.drawString("X",95,65);
                   player1 = false;
                   return;
                   else
                   if(!player1){
                   gameBoard[0][1] = "O";
                   g.drawString("O",95,65);
                   player1 = true;
                   return;
              } // end of A2
              else
              if(move == "A3"){
                   spaceA1(g);
                   spaceA2(g);
                   spaceB1(g);
                   spaceB2(g);
                   spaceB3(g);
                   spaceC1(g);
                   spaceC2(g);
                   spaceC3(g);
                   if(player1){
                   gameBoard[0][2] = "X";
                   g.drawString("X",125,65);
                   player1 = false;
                   return;
                   else
                   if(!player1){
                   gameBoard[0][2] = "O";
                   g.drawString("O",125,65);
                   player1 = true;
                   return;
              } // end of A3
              else
              if(move == "B1")
                   spaceA1(g);
                   spaceA2(g);
                   spaceA3(g);
                   spaceB2(g);
                   spaceB3(g);
                   spaceC1(g);
                   spaceC2(g);
                   spaceC3(g);
                   if(player1){
                   gameBoard[1][0] = "X";
                   g.drawString("X",65,95);
                   player1 = false;
                   return;
                   else
                   if(!player1){
                   gameBoard[1][0] = "O";
                   g.drawString("O",65,95);
                   player1 = true;
                   return;
              } // end of B1
              else
              if(move == "B2"){
                   spaceA1(g);
                   spaceA2(g);
                   spaceA3(g);
                   spaceB1(g);
                   spaceB3(g);
                   spaceC1(g);
                   spaceC2(g);
                   spaceC3(g);
                   if(player1){
                   gameBoard[1][1] = "X";
                   g.drawString("X",95,95);
                   player1 = false;
                   return;
                   else
                   if(!player1){
                   gameBoard[1][1] = "O";
                   g.drawString("O",95,95);
                   player1 = true;
                   return;
              } // end of B2
              else
              if(move == "B3"){
                   spaceA1(g);
                   spaceA2(g);
                   spaceA3(g);
                   spaceB1(g);
                   spaceB2(g);
                   spaceC1(g);
                   spaceC2(g);
                   spaceC3(g);
                   if(player1){
                   gameBoard[1][2] = "X";
                   g.drawString("X",125,95);
                   player1 = false;
                   return;
                   else
                   if(!player1){
                   gameBoard[1][2] = "O";
                   g.drawString("O",125,95);
                   player1 = true;
                   return;
              }// end of B3
         }// end of graphics
         public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent me){}
         public void mousePressed(MouseEvent me){}
         public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent me){}
         public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent me){}
         public void mouseExited(MouseEvent me){}
         public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent me){
              int x = me.getX();
              int y = me.getY();
              if((x >=51) && (x<= 79) && (y >= 51) && (y <= 79)) //MOVE IS A1
                   move = "A1";
              else
              if((x >=81) && (x<=109) && (y >=51) && (y <= 79))  //MOVE IS A2
                   move = "A2";
              else
              if((x >=111) && (x<=139) && (y >=51) && (y <= 79))  //MOVE IS A3
                   move = "A3";
              else
              if((x >=51) && (x<= 79) && (y >= 81) && (y <= 109))  //MOVE IS B1
                   move = "B1";
              else
              if((x >=81) && (x<=109) && (y >=81) && (y <= 109))  //MOVE IS B2
                   move = "B2";
              else
              if((x >=111) && (x<=139) && (y >=81) && (y <= 109))  //MOVE IS B3
                   move = "B3";
              repaint();
    //<applet code = "game3.class" height =300 width=300> </applet>     

    writing a tic-tac-toe is harder than it sounds.. i wrote one last year in my computer science class.. i have it on my website, if you want to look at code. i wrote it in c++, but the logic is all that matters :)
    btw-last year, i wasnt too good of an OOP programmer, so the program is procedurely written. heres the url:
    http://www.angelfire.com/blues/smb
    also, to tell if a box is already taken, you can just add an if statement:   if ( gameBoard[selX][selY] == null )  //not taken, fill box:many people resort to a boolean matrix of the same idea, but with booleans that store which boxes are taken. i prefer the way above, saves code, memory, and makes it more understandable.
    hope it helps.

  • Tic tac toe game source code

    Hi,
    can any one give me the source code of tic tac toe game..
    below is the requirement
    1. Multi-Player online Tic-Tac-Toe game
    2. Configurable to set from 3 to 6 sides
    3. Able to create game, select a list of created open game, join the selected game
    Please can i have the distributable war file...
    Thanks in advance

    Hi,
    can any one give me the source code of tic tac toe game..
    below is the requirement
    1. Multi-Player online Tic-Tac-Toe game
    2. Configurable to set from 3 to 6 sides
    3. Able to create game, select a list of created open game, join the selected game
    Please can i have the distributable war file...
    Thanks in advance 

  • Help with printing a tic tac toe board (using a loop to print)

    hey im making the smiple game tic tac toe and im tryin to print out the board after each turn. I have a 2d array called char which is a 3 by 3 array and i dont know how i would make a for loop to print out the x's and o's in their right spot and still have the board look like a normal tic tac toe board. When the board is printing the x's and o's are already in the 2d char array board.So basically what i want to happen is after player 1's turn is up wherever he put the x replace the number on the board with an x and keep the rest the same and whenever player 2's turn is up wherever he put the o replace the number on the board with an o and keep the rest the same. Any help would be awesome thanks alot.
    Here is the code to the program (i know i use if statements to much its a bad habit of mine)
    import java.util.*;
    public class Tictactoe
        private char board [] [] = new board [3] [3];
        private int X;
        private int O;
        private Scanner p1choice;
        private Scanner p2choice;
        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
        public Tictactoe()
            p1choice = new Scanner(System.in);
            p2choice = new Scanner(System.in);
            play();
        public void play()
            printoriginalboard();
        public void printoriginalboard()
            System.out.println("    |    |    ");  
            System.out.println("  3 |  2 |  1 ");
            System.out.println("____|____|____");
            System.out.println("    |    |    ");
            System.out.println("  6 |  5 |  4 ");
            System.out.println("    |    |    ");
            System.out.println("____|____|____");
            System.out.println("    |    |    ");
            System.out.println("  9 |  8 |  7 ");
            System.out.println("    |    |    ");
            System.out.println("This is the classic game of tictactoe simply pick a number 1 through 9 to place an x or an o in that area.");
            player1turn();
        public void player1turn()
            System.out.println("Player 1 pick an area to place an X");
            int p1choice= p1choice.nextInt();
            if(p1choice == 1 && p2choice == 1 || p1choice == 1){
                System.out.println("This spot has already been taken");
                else
                board[0][2] = 'x';
            pintboard();
            if(p1choice == 2 && p2choice == 2 || p1choice == 2){
            System.out.println("This spot has already been taken");
            else
                board[1][2] = 'x';
            pintboard();
            if(p1choice == 3 && p2choice == 3 || p1choice == 3){
            System.out.println("This spot has already been taken");
            else
                board[2][2] = 'x';
            pintboard();
            if(p1choice == 4 && p2choice == 4 || p1choice == 4){
            System.out.println("This spot has already been taken");
                board[0][1] = 'x';
            pintboard();
            if(p1choice == 5 && p2choice == 5 || p1choice == 5){
            System.out.println("This spot has already been taken");
            else
                board[1][1] = 'x';
            pintboard();
            if(p1choice == 6 && p2choice == 6 || p1choice == 6){
            System.out.println("This spot has already been taken");
            else
                board[2][1] = 'x';
            pintboard();
            if(p1choice == 7 && p2choice == 7 || p1choice == 7){
            System.out.println("This spot has already been taken");
            else
                board[0][0] = 'x';
            pintboard();
            if(p1choice ==8 && p2choice == 8 || p1choice == 8){
            System.out.println("This spot has already been taken");
            else
                board[1][0] = 'x';
            pintboard();
            if(p1choice == 9 && p2choice == 9 || p1choice == 9){
            System.out.println("This spot has already been taken");
            else
                board[2][0] = 'x';
            pintboard();
        public void p2turn()
            System.out.println("Pick an area to place an O");
            int p2choice = p2choice.nextInt();
            if(p2choice == 1 && p1choice == 1 || p2choice == 1){
            System.out.println("This spot has already been taken");
            else
                board[0][2] = 'o';
            pintboard();
            if(p2choice == 2 && p1choice == 2 || p2choice == 2){
            System.out.println("This spot has already been taken");
            else
                board[1][2] = 'o';
            pintboard();
            if(p2choice == 3 && p1choice == 3 || p2choice == 3){
            System.out.println("This spot has already been taken");
            else
                board[2][2] = 'o';
            pintboard();
            if(p2choice == 4 && p1choice == 4 || p2choice == 4){
            System.out.println("This spot has already been taken");
            else
                board[0][1] = 'o';
            pintboard();
            if(p2choice == 5 && p1choice == 5 || p2choice == 5){
            System.out.println("This spot has already been taken");
            else
                board[1][1] = 'o';
            pintboard();
            if(p2choice == 6 && p1choice == 6 || p2choice == 6){
            System.out.println("This spot has already been taken");
            else
                board[2][1] = 'o';
            pintboard();
            if(p2choice == 7 && p1choice == 7 || p2choice == 7){
            System.out.println("This spot has already been taken");
            else
                board[0][0] = 'o';
            pintboard();
            if(p2choice == 8 && p1choice == 8 || p2choice == 8){
            System.out.println("This spot has already been taken");
            else
                board[1][0] = 'o';
            pintboard();
            if(p2choice == 9 && p1choice == 9 || p2choice == 9){
            System.out.println("This spot has already been taken");
            else
                board[2][0] = 'o';
            pintboard();
        public void pintboard()
        {

    Anyway the answer is that you are trying to create an array of char as there is no such thing as a board[3][3].
    One of the best tools a programmer can do is learn how to break a big problem into little problems and work on each little problem in isolation, and then when finished combining the solutions together into the final program. You big mistake that I see here is trying to bite off more than you can chew: trying to create a whole functioning interactive program from just one class. Why give yourself a task that would be difficult even for an experienced java programmer? I suggest that you break this down into logical parts and try to solve the smaller problems before worrying about the whole. For instance, if I were doing something like this, I'd create a class called TTTBoard that encapsulated the tic tac toe board and nothing but the board. I'd think of it as an entity. When I wanted the current state of the board, I'd query the board via a method such as getCurrentState. I'd have methods for checking if position is free, for placing an x/o in a spot, for checking for win, etc... Then I'd create a user interface class where I'd give the users a choice and get their responses. I'd probably create a Game class to control it all. While this all seems daunting, you are trying to do essentially the same thing, but all in one huge class. My recommendation: study OOPs and learn to do it the smart way. Good luck.

  • Test out this Tic Tac Toe game please

    I know this is suppose to be a real java forum, but this is stripped down version of java, but it's still java. Before using real java I used this Judo. So can you guys download the stuff and play it a few times. Give me any suggestions or bug reports. This is v. 1.0 and there isn't a winner decider yet. Thanks and hope you have fun!
    You will need to download JUDO
    http://judo.sourceforge.net/#download
    Open JUDO and paste this code into it and run.
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    String Start = "Execute y/n...";
    drawString(Intro, 150,50);
    drawString(Start, 150,70);
    String Go = "y";
    String go;
    go = readString();
    if(equal(go,Go)){
    setColor(blue);
    for(int loading = 0 ; loading < 460; loading++)
    int lpercent = loading;
    //printLine("Loading percent... "+lpercent/460+"%");
    fillRectangle(loading*1,250, 25,25);
    delay(0.01);
    String complete = "Loading Complete...";
    drawString(complete,0,235);
    //Ask what user would like [X or O]
    //get player name
    String PlayerName;
    String PlayerName2;
    printLine("Enter Player 1 name...");
    PlayerName = readString();
    printLine("Enter Player 2 name...");
    PlayerName2 = readString();
    //Recycle program loop here
    String execute = "y";
    String yes = "y";
    //While user would still like to run program
    while(equal(execute, yes)) {
    //decide player symbol
    String PlayerOne;
    String PlayerTwo;
    printLine("Select player 1 character...[x or o]");
    PlayerOne = readString();
    String O = "o";
    String X = "x";
    if(equal(PlayerOne, X) ) {
    PlayerTwo = O;
    else{
    PlayerTwo = X;
    //Printout inputed data
    printLine("Player 1 : ("+ PlayerOne +") " + PlayerName + " Player 2 : (" + PlayerTwo +") "+ PlayerName2);
    //Draw playing board
    String info = "Player 1 : ("+ PlayerOne +") " + PlayerName + " | Player 2 : (" + PlayerTwo +") "+ PlayerName2;
    //clearDrawing();
    for(int roundTime = 0 ; roundTime < 6; roundTime++) {
    setBackgroundColor(azure);
    drawString(info, 150,50);
    //horizontal lines
    setColor(black);
    drawLine(100,100, 400,100);
    drawLine(100,101, 400,101);
    drawLine(100,141, 400,141);
    drawLine(100,142, 400,142);
    drawLine(100,182, 400,182);
    drawLine(100,183, 400,183);
    //verticle lines
    drawLine(200,60, 200,223);
    drawLine(201,60, 201,223);
    drawLine(300,60, 300,223);
    drawLine(301,60, 301,223);
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    String a = "A";
    String b = "B";
    String c = "C";
    String d = "D";
    String one = "1";
    String two = "2";
    String three = "3";
    drawString(a, 100,80);
    drawString(b, 100,120);
    drawString(c, 100,160);
    drawString(d, 100,200);
    drawString(one, 150,230);
    drawString(two, 250,230);
    drawString(three, 350,230);
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    String pOne = PlayerName + "'s turn to move...";
    String pTwo = PlayerName2 + "'s turn to move...";
    if(equal(PlayerOne,X)) {
    drawString(pOne, 50,243);
    else{
    drawString(pTwo, 50,243);
    //ask user to make move here, then alternate character moves.
    String move;
    String move2;
    String A1 = "a1";
    String A2 = "a2";
    String A3 = "a3";
    String B1 = "b1";
    String B2 = "b2";
    String B3 = "b3";
    String C1 = "c1";
    String C2 = "c2";
    String C3 = "c3";
    String D1 = "d1";
    String D2 = "d2";
    String D3 = "d3";
    printLine("Please enter your character position player(X)...");
    move = readString();
    String CX = "X";
    String CO = "O";
    if(equal(move,A1)) {
    setColor(blue);
    drawString(CX, 42, 140,99);
    else{
    //continue program execution
    if(equal(move,A2)) {
    setColor(blue);
    drawString(CX, 42, 240,99);
    else{
    //continue program execution
    if(equal(move,A3)) {
    setColor(blue);
    drawString(CX, 42, 340,99);
    else{
    //continue program execution
    if(equal(move,B1)) {
    setColor(blue);
    drawString(CX, 42, 140,140);
    else{
    //continue program execution
    if(equal(move,B2)) {
    setColor(blue);
    drawString(CX, 42, 240,140);
    else{
    //continue program execution
    if(equal(move,B3)) {
    setColor(blue);
    drawString(CX, 42, 340,140);
    else{
    //continue program execution
    if(equal(move,C1)) {
    setColor(blue);
    drawString(CX, 42, 140,181);
    else{
    //continue program execution
    if(equal(move,C2)) {
    setColor(blue);
    drawString(CX, 42, 240,181);
    else{
    //continue program execution
    if(equal(move,C3)) {
    setColor(blue);
    drawString(CX, 42, 340,181);
    else{
    //continue program execution
    if(equal(move,D1)) {
    setColor(blue);
    drawString(CX, 42, 140,222);
    else{
    //continue program execution
    if(equal(move,D2)) {
    setColor(blue);
    drawString(CX, 42, 240,222);
    else{
    //continue program execution
    if(equal(move,D3)) {
    setColor(blue);
    drawString(CX, 42, 340,222);
    else{
    //continue program execution
    //clearDrawing();
    if(equal(PlayerOne,X)) {
    drawString(pTwo, 50,243);
    else{
    drawString(pOne, 50,243);
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    printLine("Please enter your character position player(O)...");
    move2 = readString();
    if(equal(move2,A1)) {
    setColor(red);
    drawString(CO, 42, 140,99);
    else{
    //continue program execution
    if(equal(move2,A2)) {
    setColor(red);
    drawString(CO, 42, 240,99);
    else{
    //continue program execution
    if(equal(move2,A3)) {
    setColor(red);
    drawString(CO, 42, 340,99);
    else{
    //continue program execution
    if(equal(move2,B1)) {
    setColor(red);
    drawString(CO, 42, 140,140);
    else{
    //continue program execution
    if(equal(move2,B2)) {
    setColor(red);
    drawString(CO, 42, 240,140);
    else{
    //continue program execution
    if(equal(move2,B3)) {
    setColor(red);
    drawString(CO, 42, 340,140);
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    //continue program execution
    if(equal(move2,C1)) {
    setColor(red);
    drawString(CO, 42, 140,181);
    else{
    //continue program execution
    if(equal(move2,C2)) {
    setColor(red);
    drawString(CO, 42, 240,181);
    else{
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    if(equal(move2,C3)) {
    setColor(red);
    drawString(CO, 42, 340,181);
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    if(equal(move2,D1)) {
    setColor(red);
    drawString(CO, 42, 140,222);
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    if(equal(move2,D2)) {
    setColor(red);
    drawString(CO, 42, 240,222);
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    if(equal(move2,D3)) {
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    drawLine(100,101, 400,101);
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    drawLine(100,142, 400,142);
    drawLine(100,182, 400,182);
    drawLine(100,183, 400,183);
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    drawLine(201,60, 201,223);
    drawLine(300,60, 300,223);
    drawLine(301,60, 301,223);
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    drawString(c, 100,160);
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    drawString(two, 250,230);
    */ drawString(three, 350,230);
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    execute = readString();
    else{
    clearDrawing();
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    drawString(Fail, 150,60);

    please format the code..
    RK

  • Help with Tic Tac Toe game.

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    Hit there!!
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    Thanks in advance
    Maddy

    Hi
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    import java.awt.event.*;
    import java.math.*;
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         char board[][] = new char[3][3];
         int c          = 0;
         int p          = 0;
             Button bx[]  = new Button[10];
         Font f1      = new Font("System " , 1, 28);
         int t        = 0;
         boolean endOfGame;    
         MenuBar mb   = new MenuBar();
             Menu mm      = new Menu("Option");
         MenuItem mi  = new MenuItem("New Game");
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         super("  TicTacTo");   
         setLayout(null);
         addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter()
        {     public void windowClosing(WindowEvent ev)
              {     dispose();
                   System.exit(0);}
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              bx[i] = new Button("");
              bx.setFont(f1);
              bx[i].setActionCommand(""+i);
              bx[i].setSize(50,50);
         bx[i].setForeground(Color.black);
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              int y = (i / 3 * 51) + 42;
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         add(bx[i]);
         mi.addActionListener(new MymnAction());
         mb.add(mm);
         mi.setActionCommand("ng");
         mm.add(mi);
         setMenuBar(mb);
         setVisible(true);
         requestFocus();
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         t = 0;
         endOfGame = false;
         for (int i = 0; i < 3 ; i=i+1)
              for (int j = 0; j < 3; j++)
                   board[i][j] = '-';
                   bx[i*3+j].setLabel(".");
                   bx[i*3+j].setForeground(Color.black);
                   bx[i*3+j].setEnabled(true);
    public void winboard(int i, int j)
         bx[i*3+j].setForeground(Color.red);
    public void markboard(int i, int j, char tav)
         board[i][j] = tav;
         bx[i*3+ j].setLabel(""+tav);
         t = t + 1;
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         endOfGame = true;
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         if (t == 9) endOfGame = true;
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         for (int i = 0; i < 3 ; i=i+1)
              System.out.println(" " + board[i][0] +
         " " + board[i][1] +
                        " " + board[i][2]);
         System.out.println(" ");
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         boolean b = false;
         int i = 0;
         int j = 0;
         if (win(2,tav,tav) == true) return;
         if (tav == 'X') if (win(2,'O',tav) == true) return;
         if (tav == 'O') if (win(2,'X',tav) == true) return;
         if (win(1,tav,tav) == true) return;
         while (b == false)
         i = (int)(Math.random() * 3);
              j = (int)(Math.random() * 3);
              if (board[i][j] == '-') b = true;
         markboard(i,j,tav);
    public void playP(char tav, int mp)
         int i = mp / 3;
         int j = (mp - (mp / 3 * 3));
         if (board[i][j] == '-')     markboard(i,j,tav);
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         int i;
         int j;
    c = 0;
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              for (j = 0; j < 3; j++)     winc(j, board[i][j], tav);
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              for (i = 0; i < 3; i++)     winc(i, board[i][j], tav);
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                        buttonCount = 0;
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                    if(buttonCount == 3 && placeO == true){
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                if(placeO == true){
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        }//end method findBestButton
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        private void tempCheck(JButton tempButton){
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            tempButton.setText("O");
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            if(gameWon == true){//if it wins then set temp to false and call
                isTemp = false;//checkWinner();
                checkWinner("0");
            else{
                tempButton.setText("");//else, set buttonText to empty
            }//end if
            if(gameWon == false){//if gameWon is false, check if "X" would win
                tempButton.setText("X");
                isTemp = true;
                checkWinner("X");
                if(gameWon == true){//if x is going to win,
                    tempButton.setText("O");//block the player from winning
                else{
                    tempButton.setText("X");
        }//end method tempCheck()
    }

    touandcim wrote:
    I click to make "X"'s (the player's move). X appears but O never does, although a button is highlighted. If I keep pressing the buttons, all X's appear until the last move, when an "O" appears.I don't know if it's the problem, but
    checkWinner("0");looks suspicious. (2nd invocation in your tempCheck() method).
    Your program seems awfully brittle. How would you do it if you had a 4 x 4 board? Or 5 x 5?
    Also, your 'winningCombos' array is repeated everywhere it's used. There's no need for that; just make it an instance variable/constant.
    Winston

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