[Tutor] canvas -> CLASSES

[ALAN GAULD]

> T's reply:
> The maze is simply the backdrop.  I've attached the new and improved code.

As I said in the last post I think the maze probably needs to 
be quite a bit more than the backdrop. I think it knows about 
the rules of movement within the maze - which routes are blocked, 
where other players are sitting etc.

> > OK, So I'm asssuming these gifs represent something, 
> um... actually, the .gif will be a photo that will be taken as 
> part of the 'game'.  ... the first pic will be the main pic as 
> it goes around the maze.  When the pic 'collides' with items 
> that will be placed another pic will be displayed 

OK, In that case it sounds like the gif is only how the object 
will draw itself. The object is actually some kind of player, 
which has a status which is reflected by the gif displayed?
So the player c;lass will have methods to play the game, 
a status attribute, a collection of gifs to match the status,
a location of some kind and a draw method that displays 
the appropriate gif when requested by the maze.

With those two class definitions in mind I'd suggest an 
architecture where:

A maze is created and populated by players
The maze draws itself and then asks each player to draw itself.
Players then do something (whatever the game requires) and that 
may involve asking the maze to move them to a new location.
The maze will look at their position relative to the layout of the 
maze and the position of other players/objects. If the move can 
be made it moves the player and sets its new location. The maze 
then redaws itself, including asking the players/objects to redraw 
themselves at their new positions. (If you want to get really smart 
you could just redraw the sections of maze that have changed, 
but that's quite tricky to manage reliably)

The whole thing could be controlled by an overall Game object 
which contains the maze and a list of players (some or all of 
which could be in the maze). The game object is responsible 
for ensuring each player makes plays at the appropriate time 
or receives the user events and matches them to a player 
as appropriate.

Does that sound like a workable model?

BTW Have you looked at PyGame (www.pygame.org)
which has things like sprites etc which may make some of 
this stuff easier.

HTH,

Alan G.





		
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