[RESOLVED] save and rotate a variable grid..

i'm trying to find a good way of storing information in a variable and an easy way to "rotate" it (for lack of a better term).

the general purposes.. think of the data grid i'm dealing with as a chess board. i need to store strings in that pattern, and i also need a way to rotate that grid 180deg (again much like a chessboard viewed from the other side).

so far all I've come up with is a list of lists, but i'm hoping there is a more elegant solution..?

TIA

Are you talking about rotation as something the user will see or just conceptually? If it's the latter then why is it even necessary? The cells of the grid are still what they are. Just index from the max values instead of the min, e.g. for a 10x10 grid, (0,0) is bottom left for one player and (9,9) is bottom left for the other.

Yes this is not for user display, so that would work..

But what to use for the actual data? Is there a grid variable ?

Or i suppose a better question would be.. cana custom grid variable be created?

For a genuine matrix you would generally use a multidimensional array. For something like a chess board, a 2D array would suit perfectly. Just like a regular 1D array, the type depends on what you want to store. If you wanted to store instances of a ChessPiece class:

vb.net Code:

Dim board(7, 7) As ChessPiece

Thanks, that was the piece I was missing.

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Originally Posted by jmcilhinney

For a genuine matrix you would generally use a multidimensional array. For something like a chess board, a 2D array would suit perfectly. Just like a regular 1D array, the type depends on what you want to store. If you wanted to store instances of a ChessPiece class:

vb.net Code:

Dim board(7, 7) As ChessPiece

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Small problem. When i try to do this in a class..

Code:

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      Public Property Side1(5,5) As TileMove
            Get
                Return m_Side1
            End Get
            Set
                m_Side1 = Value
            End Set
        End Property
        Private Property m_Side1(5, 5) As TileMove

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It gives me an error "Auto-implemented properties cannot have parameters.

Is there another way to do this?? (Full Descl. I don't know much about custom classes).

That code is wrong for a number of reasons. Firstly, you have declared two properties instead of a field and a property. Notice how both declarations have the Property keyword in them? This:

vb.net Code:

Private Property m_Side1(5, 5) As TileMove

should be a field, not a property:

vb.net Code:

Private m_Side1(5, 5) As TileMove

Note that that code is actually a shorthand for this:

vb.net Code:

Private m_Side1 As TileMove(,) = New TileMove(5, 5) {}

As you can see from that, the actual type of the field is TileMove(,). That's a 2D array of TileMove. There's no size in the type. The size is only used to create an instance of that type. As such, that's the type you need to declare your property as:

vb.net Code:

Public Property Side1 As TileMove(,)
    Get

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Originally Posted by jmcilhinney

This:

vb.net Code:

Private Property m_Side1(5, 5) As TileMove

should be a field, not a property:

vb.net Code:

Private m_Side1(5, 5) As TileMove

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Thank you for pointing that out. That matches all the other classes I have, I'm not sure how it was changed to a property.

And thank you for the array notes, that cleared it up. :)