/// <summary>
/// Set the tiles based on the Scrabble Game
/// </summary>
public ScrabbleGame()
{
int startingLetter = (char)'A';
int total = 0;
//Loop through the letters and determine how many tiles per letter
for (int i = startingLetter; i < (startingLetter + 26); i++)
{
total += ScrabbleLetter.HowManyTiles((char)i);
}
//Set variable values and instantiate the array
m_tilesLeft = total + 2;
m_totalTiles = total + 2;
m_scrabbleLetters = new ScrabbleLetter[total + 2]; //2 blank tiles!
int counter = 0; //use to control the index of the array
//Loop through the letters to create the tiles
for (int i = startingLetter; i < (startingLetter + 26); i++)
{
//Loop through the number of tiles for that letter
for (int j = 0; j < ScrabbleLetter.HowManyTiles((char)i); j++)
{
m_scrabbleLetters[counter] = new ScrabbleLetter((char)i);
counter++;//always increase the counter!
}
}
//add the two blanks
m_scrabbleLetters[counter] = new ScrabbleLetter(' ');
counter++;
m_scrabbleLetters[counter] = new ScrabbleLetter(' ');
}
/// <summary>
/// Returns how many tiles in scrabble have the letter.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="L">The letter.</param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static int HowManyTiles(char L)
{
ScrabbleLetter s = new ScrabbleLetter(L);
return(s.NumberOfLetters);
}
public MainWindow()
{
InitializeComponent();
///takes the dictionary and puts into a stream reader to be used
System.Net.WebClient wc = new System.Net.WebClient();
Stream download = wc.OpenRead("http://darcy.rsgc.on.ca/ACES/ICS4U/SourceCode/Words.txt");
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(download);
///picks random letters, and finds and removes blanks
ScrabbleGame sg = new ScrabbleGame();
string letters = sg.drawInitialTiles().ToUpper();//E C K S O I H = testing letters
while (letters.IndexOf(" ") != -1)
{
letters = letters.Remove(letters.IndexOf(" "), 1);
BlankTileCounter++;
}
///finds the tiles in the alphabet and removes them, leaving all other letters
for (int i = 0; i < letters.Length; i++)
{
int letterLocation = badLetters.IndexOf(letters.Substring(i, 1));
if (letterLocation != -1)
{
badLetters = badLetters.Remove(letterLocation, 1);
}
}
string lastWord = "";
lblOutput.Content += "\t\t" + Environment.NewLine; ///formating
while (!sr.EndOfStream)
{
int counter = 0;
currentWord = sr.ReadLine().ToUpper();
string CheckWord = currentWord; ///
if (currentWord.Length < 8 && currentWord != lastWord) ///only have 7 tiles, can't be longer
{
for (int i = 0; i < badLetters.Length; i++)
{
if (currentWord.Contains(badLetters.Substring(i, 1)))
{///checks for any letters that aren't tiles
counter++;
if (counter > BlankTileCounter)
{///if there are more wrong letters than blank tiles, exit for loop
i = 26;
}
}
}//end for loop
if (counter <= BlankTileCounter)
{///checks if the word has only letters available
int currentPoints = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < letters.Length; i++)
{
string currentLetter = letters.Substring(i, 1); ///finds specific letter in current word
int RemoveLetter = CheckWord.IndexOf(currentLetter); ///finds index of that letter
if (RemoveLetter != -1)
{ ///removes thre letter form the temp word, and gets the points for the letter
CheckWord = CheckWord.Remove(RemoveLetter, 1);
ScrabbleLetter sl = new ScrabbleLetter(currentLetter.ToCharArray()[0]);
currentPoints += sl.Points;
}
}
if (CheckWord.Length <= BlankTileCounter)
{/// if the word can be made with the tiles, writes it to output
lastWord = currentWord;
lblOutput.Content += Environment.NewLine + currentWord.Substring(0, 1)
+ currentWord.Substring(1);
if (currentPoints > BestScore)
{///checks if the current word has a better score than previous best
BestWord = currentWord;
BestScore = currentPoints;
}
} //end check for usable word
} //end if for potential word
} //end length check if
} //end while loop
sr.Close();
//writes best wrod and c=score to output
lblBest.Content = "Your letters were: " + letters
+ Environment.NewLine + "Your best possible word is: "
+ BestWord.Substring(0, 1) + BestWord.Substring(1).ToLower()
+ ", which gets you " + BestScore + " points";
}