org.jscience.computing.game.muehle
Class MuehlePosition

java.lang.Object
  org.jscience.computing.game.GameBoardPosition
      org.jscience.computing.game.muehle.MuehlePosition

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Serializable, java.lang.Cloneable

public class MuehlePosition
extends GameBoardPosition

The class MuehlePosition represents a Muehle game position. The representation is an integer based on the following little ASCII graphic:

 00----------01----------02  |           |           |
   |  08------09------10   |  |   |       |       |   |
   |   |  16--17--18   |   |  |   |   |       |   |   |
  07--15--23      19--11--03  |   |   |       |   |   |
   |   |  22--21--20   |   |  |   |       |       |   |
   |  14------13------12   |  |           |           |
  06----------05----------04

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Serialized Form

Field Summary

static int

NUMBER_OF_FIELDS DOCUMENT ME!

Constructor Summary

MuehlePosition(int pos)
Creates a new MuehlePosition object.

Method Summary

boolean	connectsTo(int pos) DOCUMENT ME!
boolean	connectsTo(MuehlePosition pos) DOCUMENT ME!
int[]	getConnections() returns getMuehlePairs(asInteger())
static int[]	getConnections(int pos) DOCUMENT ME!
int[]	getMuehlePairs() returns getMuehlePairs(asInteger())
static int[]	getMuehlePairs(int pos) As every potential muehle is closed by two pairs of 2 other positions having a piece of the same color, getMuehlePairs() returns an array of integers that represent the two pairs of Positions that fullfill this condition.
static boolean	isValidPosition(int p) DOCUMENT ME!
java.lang.String	toString() DOCUMENT ME!

Methods inherited from class org.jscience.computing.game.GameBoardPosition

asInteger, equals

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

NUMBER_OF_FIELDS

public static int NUMBER_OF_FIELDS

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Constructor Detail

MuehlePosition

public MuehlePosition(int pos)
               throws java.lang.IllegalArgumentException

Creates a new MuehlePosition object.

Parameters:

pos - DOCUMENT ME!

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException - DOCUMENT ME!

Method Detail

isValidPosition

public static boolean isValidPosition(int p)

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Parameters:

p - DOCUMENT ME!

Returns:

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getMuehlePairs

public int[] getMuehlePairs()

returns getMuehlePairs(asInteger())

Returns:

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getMuehlePairs

public static int[] getMuehlePairs(int pos)

As every potential muehle is closed by two pairs of 2 other positions having a piece of the same color, getMuehlePairs() returns an array of integers that represent the two pairs of Positions that fullfill this condition.

Parameters:

pos - DOCUMENT ME!

Returns:

an int[] with 4 elememts; the first two array elements represent the first position pair to potentially close the muehle, the next two elements represent the second position pair - or null if the given pos is not valid.

connectsTo

public boolean connectsTo(MuehlePosition pos)

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Parameters:

pos - DOCUMENT ME!

Returns:

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connectsTo

public boolean connectsTo(int pos)

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Parameters:

pos - DOCUMENT ME!

Returns:

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getConnections

public int[] getConnections()

returns getMuehlePairs(asInteger())

Returns:

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getConnections

public static int[] getConnections(int pos)

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Parameters:

pos - DOCUMENT ME!

Returns:

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toString

public java.lang.String toString()

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Overrides:

toString in class GameBoardPosition

Returns:

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