SUDOKU PROJECT
Alejandro Ledesma Villacis
1º Telecommunications Engineering
Group: 95
Structure:
oThe class Canvas2 (at the beginning first GUI), is where the board
is created, the bitmasks defined( logic color code depending in the
actions of the user), gives support for the print button and manage the
mouse and keyboard events(it also limits the inputs from 0 to 9).
§Maybe the most original aspects are the highlighting when the user
put the mouse on a cell and the option of using the mouse to play
(each click increments a digit once, if pressing Shift at the same time,
it increments three times, and if pressing Control it clears the cell) ,
additionally the board´s cells are considering as paint components
( using the method paintComponent( Graphics g ) and the propertities
of JCanvas to draw the rectangles and board defined in the
“Introduction to graphics programming in Java”).
Structure:
The class SudokuSolver is the one which solves the Sudoku by
means of recursion and backtracking( is a recursive brute-force
solver )and also provides support for the Animated solving button and
the creation of random Sudoku games( it takes one of the 10 Sudoku
games I copied and select one by Math.random()) .
§ In order to avoid problems, and in the case we want to add more
Sudoku games in the source code, the parse( String s ) method is
used in order to evaluate the elements of the string as numbers from
0 to 9 and the point `.` as the separator between rows.
§ Following the Canvas2 structure, a bitmask is defined for rows,
columns and subpanels.
Structure:
The class HelpBox provides the window where the text instructions
and information about the game will be seen from a file written in
ASCII code text.
§ The only remarkable features are the vertical scroll bar and the
necessity of importing util.StringTokenizer in order to get the
substrings separated and get the information from the files as we
want.
The class Repaintable is an interface used for provide support for the
animated solving, as the board needs to be “updated” every time we
“paint” something on.
Structure:
The class SudokuGUI is the main class of the sudokuProject, as
it builds the whole graphical interface and runs the game itself. It gets
the Board from Canvas2, creates the left-panel of buttons, the
upperLine of messages and adds some decorative images.
§ As well it calls the solver, changes the order of the Sudoku in order to
creates new Random games, defines the methods for editing the
fixed numbers and manages all the events of the buttons-panel.
§ The SudokuGUI also get the information from the text files for the
HelpBox,UpperLine and Buttons by using
ResourceBundle.getBundle() .
The class Animator is an inner class of SudokuGUI, it “repaints”
the board while the solver is working by calling repaintRequested()
from the Repaintable interface.
How to play:
•Starting window, we can input
numbers with the mouse or keyboard
on the cell we want, as it becomes
highlighted when we pass by
•To start, we click in New
Random Game to start to
play . and an easy random
Sudoku game is generated.
How to play:
•As we introduce the numbers they
appear in blue…
•Whenever we want we
can use the Clear button
to erase the numbers we
have inputted or the Clean
the board button to erase
all, even the fixed values.
How to play:
• Whenever we want we can
check our game, by pressing
the button check.
• The wrong numbers will
appear in read, while right
numbers remain blue
•The Print button, will print
the current board, popping-up
the printer-window.
How to play:
•As we finish the Sudoku, we can check if
all the numbers are right, or if we want
to know directly the solution, we press
the button Solve.
•Another option is the animated
solving, which shows the
program´s intermediate steps.
How to play:
•Another useful option is use the
Edit and set initial position which
allow us to modify the fixed
values from the beginning, in
this way, we can copy a Sudoku
from a newspaper,
magazine,etc. However the user
have to make sure it has a
solution, in spite of that the
program will tell you if there´s
any error when you press the Set
•When we press the button help and
instructions, a complete information
about the game and how to play is
displayed.
•As well the exit button, will close
the whole program.
The End
First SudokuGUI, I will never forget you…
