RE: [Rails-devel] The Player Class

[Brett <wak...@ea...>]

On Wed, 2005-04-27 at 00:38 +0200, Erik Vos wrote:
> > Though, now that I think about it, perhaps Bank should be a 
> > totally static 
> > class?
> 
> It could be, sure. 
> It's now a singleton, though not very well managed.
>  

It just seems like this is one of the rare instances that I can not
envision needing more than one of these.


> In hindsight, I think the player list belongs in Game
> (not in Player or in GameLoader),
> so that all possible UIs can get it from there.
> What about that?
> 
> We should be careful to keep game data and UI stuff separate,
> so that in the future our classes can also be used for
> a 18xx game server (just to name one possibility).
> So the player list should not be saved in the UI code.
> 


I was seeing the same thing myself. Probably most or all of GameLoader
can be moved into Game.

> 
> On Game: I was thinking that we could rework Game into a singleton
> class just like CompanyManager and StockMarket, and also
> created by ComponentManager, in which certain game-wide
> properties could be initialised from XML that would not
> fit easily elsewhere. E.g. the definitions regarding "rounds",
> the size of the Bank etc.
> 
> But the players will have to come from the UI - any UI!
> 
> And maybe Game and GameLoader should swap names.
>  

Yes, yes, and probably yes.


> > Things are starting to look a lot like an actual game. It's 
> > quite encouraging.
> 
> If you can fix that missing-method compiler error in Options,
> it might for me too.....
> 

That is a really bizarre error. The setPreferredSize method ought to be
inherited from JComponent.

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/javax/swing/JComponent.html#setPreferredSize(java.awt.Dimension)

Unless "import java.awt.*" is missing from the file, I can only think
that you've got a bad copy of the file.

I just did a clean checkout of the whole project, and it compiles and
runs just fine for me.


---Brett. 

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