Quick Fun Library

[DtrollMC]

Have been working on this the past few days, on whatever time I get off work. Some functions and parameters can still be improved, but it is definitely usable enough to show you all! It's a cool little Java library. There are 3 primary classes:

Tile

This is an interface which helps define a Tile object. Some concrete classes have been implemented, such as ColorTile and SpriteTile, but many more can be created. 

TileMap

A data structure for managing these tile objects in a 2D array (matrix). Comes with an iterator for iterating through the tiles.

TileMapPanel

This class is used to visualize the Tile objects. Since the tile interface defines a method paint(Graphics g, int gridScale), the TileMapPanel iterates through it's TileMap and calls the paint(g, gridscale) function on each tile.

 

All in all, this is a really young library, I have a lot of improvements to make, but it's fun to play around with, and I've thought of a lot of applications, so I thought it'd be cool to see what y'all come up with.

 

Here are a few quick examples:

 

package com.carvethsolutions.gridlib

import com.carvethsolutions.gridlib.tile.ColorTile
import com.carvethsolutions.gridlib.tile.SpriteTile
import com.carvethsolutions.gridlib.tile.TileMap
import java.awt.Color
import java.util.*
import javax.swing.JFrame

/**
 *
 * @project gridlib
 * @author John on 5/5/2018
 */

fun main(args : Array<String>) {
    val tilemap = TileMap(128)
    val r = Random()

    for (x in 0 until 128) {
        for (y in 0 until 128) {
            val color = Color(r.nextInt(256),
                    r.nextInt(256),
                    r.nextInt(256))
            tilemap.placeTile(ColorTile(color, x, y), x, y)
        }
    }

    val tmp = TileMapPanel(tilemap, 8)

    val frame = JFrame()
    frame.add(tmp)
    frame.pack()
    frame.show()


    val frame2 = JFrame()
    val tilemap2 = TileMap(32)

    for (x in 0 until 32) {
        for (y in 0 until 32) {
            tilemap2.placeTile(SpriteTile("./res/grass.png",x,y),x,y)
        }
    }

    val tmp2 = TileMapPanel(tilemap2)
    frame2.add(tmp2)
    frame2.pack()
    frame2.show()
}

 

 

 

The GitHub for this library can be found here: https://github.com/JLCarveth/gridlib

 

 

 

[DtrollMC]

glad to see the shitposts get all the replies...

[Fire Yoshi]

On 05/05/2018 at 9:25 PM, DtrollMC said:

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Nice! Is that Kotlin?

[DtrollMC]

19 hours ago, Fire Yoshi said:

Nice! Is that Kotlin?

It's mostly built in Java, however I do the test files in Kotlin just because it's so damn easy / quick. Will probably be porting over the current classes to Kotlin as I develop.

[DtrollMC]

Recently added some abstract matrix data structures, and plan to add new types of viewers.