On Jul 31, 2004, at 10:03 AM, Joseph J. Strout wrote:
At 9:51 AM -0500 7/31/04, William Squires wrote:
This is sort of a poll. I'm trying to make a Mines-like game (like
the Windows "Minesweeper" game). I've already got the game graphics
made. Am I better off:
1) Making one big custom canvas to represent the "game board", or
2) Make a custom canvas to represent a tile/square
Definitely door number 1. This provides maximum flexibility, and I
think is frankly easier -- the only benefit of option 2 is that the
point-to-cell and cell-to-point calculations are done for you, but
since that is very simple arithmetic to do yourself, it's a very minor
benefit.
What are your experiences with this sort of thing? Please reply
off-list.
Why? This seems like a valuable discussion to have in the open; I'm
sure there are others here who would be interested in hearing it as
well.
Because I didn't want this to become another free-for-all topic fest
that branches out into stuff that's not even remotely related to the
original post.
Best,
- Joe
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