I have been working on a card game (called Uno) for past few days.
Language used : C# 2.0
When I start a new game, a dialog window pops up asking the name of
the player. I enter the name, and then cards are distributed to the
computer and player. Then I set a flag true, to signal that the client
area is dirty - please paint it. There is a timer which check for this
flag and if it finds it true, it invalidates the form.
Concept :-
.... timer_tick handler code...
{
if (true == paintFlag)
{
...form.Invalid ate() ;
paintFlag = false;
}
}
This should invoke the painting handler of my form.
Problem:
I see only the portion of the form painted where the first pop up
window was located (usually in the middle of the window), after the
pop up window is gone.
Why isn't the whole form painted? Or does it? If yes, why are the
cards not visible?
If you want, have a look at the code here - http://cnayan.googlepages.com/2007-0...apshot-Uno.zip
I know the code in unoptimized right now. :)
Thanks in advance! :)
Nayan 6 1630
"Nayan" <cn****@gmail.c omwrote in message
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>I have been working on a card game (called Uno) for past few days.
Language used : C# 2.0
When I start a new game, a dialog window pops up asking the name of
the player. I enter the name, and then cards are distributed to the
computer and player. Then I set a flag true, to signal that the client
area is dirty - please paint it. There is a timer which check for this
flag and if it finds it true, it invalidates the form.
Your whole approach is wrong here. Just paint everything in OnPaint and call
form.invalidate when things change. Get rid of the timer.
Michael
Thanks Michael for the suggestion.
I know this is the usual approach. But instead of duplicating code
(form invalidation call) everywhere, I just set a flag which is easier
to do. Timer is ticking without any harm to the code. When it sees the
flag, it just invokes painting, apart from any other task to do.
I can change the code, but in my opinion, it won't solve the problem.
If the code is wrong please help me there. Later on, concept can be
revised/optimized.
First thing first, the program should work 100%.
Thanks a lot!
Nayan
On Mar 19, 12:41 am, "Michael C" <nos...@nospam. comwrote:
"Nayan" <cna...@gmail.c omwrote in message
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Your whole approach is wrong here. Just paint everything in OnPaint and call
form.invalidate when things change. Get rid of the timer.
Michael
Hi Nayan,
did you check, if the form.Invalidate-line is really reached?
did you mark the paintFlag variable as volatile?
maybe you have some problem with the memory-model.
Christof
"Nayan" <cn****@gmail.c omschrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:11******** **************@ n76g2000hsh.goo glegroups.com.. .
>I have been working on a card game (called Uno) for past few days.
Language used : C# 2.0
When I start a new game, a dialog window pops up asking the name of
the player. I enter the name, and then cards are distributed to the
computer and player. Then I set a flag true, to signal that the client
area is dirty - please paint it. There is a timer which check for this
flag and if it finds it true, it invalidates the form.
Concept :-
... timer_tick handler code...
{
if (true == paintFlag)
{
...form.Invalid ate() ;
paintFlag = false;
}
}
This should invoke the painting handler of my form.
Problem:
I see only the portion of the form painted where the first pop up
window was located (usually in the middle of the window), after the
pop up window is gone.
Why isn't the whole form painted? Or does it? If yes, why are the
cards not visible?
If you want, have a look at the code here - http://cnayan.googlepages.com/2007-0...apshot-Uno.zip
I know the code in unoptimized right now. :)
Thanks in advance! :)
Nayan
Hi Christof,
I got the problem's solution :)
Actually everything is fine.. except the logic - I was calling
Invalidate() and then was setting the flag to false *somewhere* else
(in Paint method).
I corrected it and have continued the development. Thanks for
trying :)
Nayan
On Mar 19, 12:39 pm, "Christof Nordiek" <c...@nospam.de wrote:
Hi Nayan,
did you check, if the form.Invalidate-line is really reached?
did you mark the paintFlag variable as volatile?
maybe you have some problem with the memory-model.
Christof
"Nayan" <cn****@gmail.c omwrote in message
news:11******** **************@ l75g2000hse.goo glegroups.com.. .
Thanks Michael for the suggestion.
I know this is the usual approach. But instead of duplicating code
(form invalidation call) everywhere, I just set a flag which is easier
to do.
A tiny bit easier, maybe.
Timer is ticking without any harm to the code. When it sees the
flag, it just invokes painting, apart from any other task to do.
The harm is that is can produce race conditions and potentially difficult to
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