public Form1()
{
InitializeComponent();
helper = new TicTacToeHelper(boardLength, winLength);
//longer text because i had some weird issues with shorter one not accurately
//depicting the length of the text
lWidth = TextRenderer.MeasureText("n n n n n n n n n ", label5.Font).Width / 9;
lHeight = TextRenderer.MeasureText("n", label5.Font).Height;
StringBuilder label5builder = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i < helper.BoardLength; i++)
{
for (int k = 0; k < helper.BoardLength; k++)
{
label5builder.Append("n ");
}
label5builder.Append('\n');
}
label5.Text = label5builder.ToString();
ShowWinString();
}
//this function asks the helper about the game state
void ShowGameState()
{
//first we need to convert the text to a form that the helper understands
char[] text = label5.Text.ToCharArray();
List <TicTacToeFieldState> board = new List <TicTacToeFieldState>();
for (int i = 0; i < text.Length; i++)
{
try
{
TicTacToeFieldState fieldState = TicTacToeHelper.GetFieldFromChar(text[i]);
board.Add(fieldState);
}
catch
{
}
}
//get the game state
TicTacToeGameState gameState = helper.CheckGameState(board.ToArray());
if (gameState == TicTacToeGameState.Continuable)
{
label7.Text = "game is continuable.";
}
else if (gameState == TicTacToeGameState.Tied)
{
label7.Text = "game is tied.";
}
else if (gameState == TicTacToeGameState.XWon)
{
label7.Text = "x has won the game.";
}
else if (gameState == TicTacToeGameState.OWon)
{
label7.Text = "o has won the game.";
}
}