AcChess

[murray83]

Thanks to the ideas of fellow member @MajP having cracked the scrabble idea ( top marks to your demo sir ) i had another idea for movement but this time I think the coordinate idea works well all though I'm sure you could drop in Majp's drop and drag idea. but for now it is just a simple two box from and to

see what you think

 

[murray83]

made some updates ( had the time as snow and sick bug so not going out today )

moves are captured and shown on form in a text box n the form, made it a bit more nice looking but still got an issue to fix

to do

logic for moves from a1 to h1 ( apart from the knight )
check and check mate

ps could this maybe be moved to sample db forum section

 

[MajP]

You do not have to do the drag and drop, but it would not be hard to implement. However, I would consider using a doublick click or click event. Typing the grid is a little too much work.

1. Click/double click a square with a piece.
2. Highlight somehow the selected piece (maybe a yellow border)
3. If a piece is selected, then double click on an empty square
4. Validate the move or provide message
5. Move piece
6. Remove highlight.

 

[arnelgp]

actually you need more tha just visual design on that.
you need the actual code/ai if you are going to have a match against the computer.

 

[murray83]

looked into the click and move and didn't work as i would of liked so for my aesthetic gonna stick with the enter ( prob old skool but hey it works )

have added a highlight though ( which for now i have kept ) and as for ai was going to just have p v p for now

edit sorry forgot to say thanks for ideas and looking

 

[murray83]

had a bit of more done to it, check is working but at mo just pawns and then i have gone and broke the diagonal take of the pawns perhaps some one can see what i have done wrong

 

[MajP]

You can get rid of about 450 lines of code and 128 event procedures.

Make a function.

Public Function fnHighlightTextBox()
  HighlightTextBox Me.ActiveControl
End Function

1. Remove all board tile click event procedures
2. Select all squares and set the onclick: =fnHighLightTextBox()
3. Remove all the square mouse down. Select all squares and set locked = true.

 

[murray83]

You can get rid of about 450 lines of code and 128 event procedures.

Make a function.

Public Function fnHighlightTextBox()
  HighlightTextBox Me.ActiveControl
End Function

1. Remove all board tile click event procedures
2. Select all squares and set the onclick: =fnHighLightTextBox()
3. Remove all the square mouse down. Select all squares and set locked = true.

i did the highlight one but the lock. think in the past locking the text box has present a problem but will look into that as well, cheers

edit 21:58 UK

i did lock and works still ? not sure why i had that in, maybe when i was looking at drag and drop

 

[murray83]

long time but have made a valid update ( well for me )

in the hex chess when you move ( at the moment the knights to A6 and L6 ) the red knights stay red and it captures it as a red piece woop

now just capture to sort and the rules

 

[murray83]

Another update this time for 2 player ( and as you may see working on 1 player vs cpu )

but happy to say got the bishop ( white at mo ) to not say that the king is in check when it has a pawn in the way ( sounds small but i was very happy )

 

[Peter Hibbs]

Hi Murray83,
Interesting project but I think that the user interface could be improved a bit, it is a bit too 'clunky' for me.

See the attached demo which I wrote a few years ago which does something similar to your version. Maybe it will give you some ideas on how to do the chess piece moves to make it look a bit better for the users, just a thought. The attached zip contains the database and an MS Word doc explaining how to install and use it. Feel free to use anything from it, if you wish.

Peter Hibbs.

 

[murray83]

@Peter Hibbs very nice but i think ( and don't take anything against ) but i prefer my way, but have made some changes

i have changed the two player to a click which you can see in v6 Attached also added bit of clue for what move one can do when clicked

 

[Peter Hibbs]

Hi,
OK, that's fine. it is your choice of course. And good luck with your project.
Peter.