Pygridz Class Definitions

Today the Internet was down most of the day, and I used that time to define my initial Pygridz classes. The morning after I wrote the rest of this post, I coded the following 5 classes as a Python script (not including load/save game). There are 5 classes, from highest to lowest level:

1. Game
2. Level
3. Room
4. Tilex (set of one or more tiles)
5. Pattern (matrix of ones and zeroes)

Game:

• levelList: list of levels
• roomList: list of rooms
• tlxList: list of tilex objects
• patList: list of patterns
• levelIdx, roomIdx, tlxIdx, patIdx: pointers to linked lists of available (unused) levels, rooms, tilexes, and patterns

Level:

• levId: level no.
• height: no. of rows
• width: no. columns
• color: background color
• penColor: color of grid lines
• roomList: list of room indices

Room:

• romId: room no.
• levId: level no.
• tlxList: list of tilex indices

Tilex:

• tlxId: tilex no.
• romId: room no.
• levId: level no.
• zOrder: display order, from back to front (equals zero for main tilex object of a room)
• row: row no. of upper left corner
• col: col no. of upper left corner
• height: no. of rows
• width: no. of columns
• color: color of tiles
• penColor: color of grid lines
• fileName: file name of bitmap, if any
• patId: pattern no. (if fileName is empty)

Pattern:

• patId: pattern no.
• patBits: list of h strings (composed of ones and zeroes), each of length w, where h = height and w = width

The above 5 classes will be used by the original version of the Map Editor to create maps of rooms (one map for each level), where rooms contain tilex objects (each tilex is a set of one or more tiles, all of the same color). Some tilex objects contain a bitmap, and are the same size as a single tile.

The 4 classes other than the Game class are each stored on disk in the form of comma-delimited text files. Each of those 4 files are stored in the following directory: C:\Docs\Pygridz\Data\Games\TicTacToe\, where TicTacToe is just a sample game name. For fields which are lists (of indices or strings), each list element appears on a separate line in the text file, preceded by an asterisk character (*). For records which correspond to available (unused) objects, the corresponding line in the text file consists of the index no. of the next available (unused) record, preceded by a slash character (/). Colors are represented by 3 values (RGB) separated by spaces, each value between 0 and 255, all enclosed in parentheses.