/// <summary>
/// Initiates the gameplay by establishing the first drawn card as the designated trump suit,
/// dealing 6 cards to each player, and declaring the first player to attack
/// based on which player possesses the lowest ranking trump card
/// </summary>
/// ***TODO: Determine first attacker based on lowest trump card in initial hand
/// (rather than assume the player is always the attacked off the bat)***
private void StartGame()
{
cbxDeck.FaceUp = false;
// shuffle
mainDeck.Shuffle();
// seeing the order of the deck in debug console for debugging
//mainDeck.ShowDeck(); // This shows all cards, turn this off when done development
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(mainDeck.ToString());
try
{
// The 14th card will be the trump
cbxTrumpCard.Card = mainDeck.GetCard(13);
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(cbxTrumpCard.Card.ToString());
PlayingCard.trumpSuit = cbxTrumpCard.Card.Suit;
InitialDeal();
PlayingCard firstCard = mainDeck.DrawCard();
cbxTrumpCard.Card = firstCard; // Moving the trump card to bottom
// add the trump card back but at the last place in the deck
mainDeck.AddCardAtBottom(firstCard);
}
catch (IndexOutOfRangeException)
{
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Exception caught when trying to draw card out of index.");
}
}
/// <summary>
/// When the main form loads
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sender"></param>
/// <param name="e"></param>
private void frmGame_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
// TEST SHUFFLE
mainDeck.Shuffle();
// seeing the order of the deck in debug console for debugging
mainDeck.ShowDeck();
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine(mainDeck.ToString());
//initialDeal();
InitialDeal();
PlayingCard firstCard = mainDeck.DrawCard();
this.cbxDeck.Card = firstCard;
txtPlayHistory.Text += firstCard.Suit + " is the initial trump suit.";
//txtPlayHistory.Text += "\nThere are now " + mainDeck.Count() + " cards left in the deck";
//Wire out the out of cards event handler
//mainDeck.OutOfCards MAKE A METHOD TO TRIGGER AN OUT OF CARDS EVENT
//Show the number of cards left in the deck
}