programming a box and swapping it

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I am trying to program actually colored boxes on a 4 by 4 array and assign inputs to them and then swap boxes. How can i go by doing this. i am a little bit familiar with c++

Posted 8-Jun-11 6:20am

adeolao

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Albert Holguin 8-Jun-11 12:55pm

what do you mean "colored boxes on a 4x4 array"?

Smithers-Jones 8-Jun-11 13:30pm

Are you by any chance working on the same project as Martin Thwaites does? See here: http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=3919753#xx3919753xx :-)

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Richard MacCutchan · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-08T07:09:00

The first thing to do is think how to do it in logical steps and write that down. That will make writing the code somewhat easier to visualise. It should also help you to think about the attributes that each square should have.

Do you know how to deal with Windows messages, how to paint coloured squares in a Window, how to write a basic Windows program, etc.?

Brian C Hart · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-08T08:05:00

Solution 2

Sounds to me like someone's trying to cheat on a homework problem. I mean, who uses C++ to develop Windows software anyways? At least use MFC.

Posted 8-Jun-11 8:05am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 8-Jun-11 16:05pm

Well, many do. I voted 5 anyway. However, I would accept your idea as a recommendation to use something else; I would suggest .NET, not MFC. A can compare how awkward is MFC UI development compared to .NET. There are other good approaches. Native Windows API is good to know anyway.
--SA

Richard MacCutchan 9-Jun-11 3:26am

There are many people who do not use MFC, all the thousands who use Visual C++ Express editions, for a start.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 12-Jun-11 18:22pm

For sure.
--SA

Brian C Hart 12-Jun-11 23:36pm

Whatever. I think the first part of what I said is true. This is such an elementary question it really smells of cheating attempt to me.

Brian C Hart 12-Jun-11 23:37pm

Just assign each box (i.e., color) a number and the do the swaps per the appropriate Numerical Recipes algo. As far as Win32 application, there is plenty of boilerplate living on the net.

It's called Google.