Blackjack

hello all i am new to this forum but a big hello goes to you all!. Currently i am making a blackjack game with vb 6.0. My skills are pretty limited but this is my question

Currently i have 52 card images.
have decided to break them into two sets

first set : card suit

second set : cards and values

the question is

How do i get the computer to ranbdomly select a card, and give its value, display the card and total the cards the program is set up i just need a hand with getting the algorithms in there

Do you know anything about objects? Or UDT?

The best way would probably be to gather all the cards in an array of objects or UDT and then use a Rnd function to pick one of them.

not really ....like i said im pretty new,,,have dealt with arrays in the past though if possible could you excplain in detail

I am on my way to bed right now. But I have time for a short explenation.

You can make an UDT like this:

VB Code:

Private Type CardType
    color As Long       '1 = spade, 2=heart and so on
    number As Long    '1-13??
End Type

THen you can make an array of them like this

VB Code:

Dim Card(51) As CardType

Then you can say that :

VB Code:

Card(0).color = 1
Card(0).nuber = 1

If you do this in a double loop you can tell all of the "cards" in the array what number and color they are.

Then you can use a Rnd (do a search if you don't know what it is) and bick one of the 52 elements in the array.

Hope that at least helped a little bi.


Good night.
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You could put all the cards in an array and swap them around for so many times to shuffle the deck. Then just pick the top card from the deck (i.e the next position in your array.)

If you are randomly picking from an array, you have a chance of picking the same card twice.