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/*!
\example widgets/widgets/tetrix
\title Tetrix Example
The Tetrix example is a Qt version of the classic Tetrix game.
\image tetrix-example.png
The object of the game is to stack pieces dropped from the top of the
playing area so that they fill entire rows at the bottom of the playing area.
When a row is filled, all the blocks on that row are removed, the player earns
a number of points, and the pieces above are moved down to occupy that row.
If more than one row is filled, the blocks on each row are removed, and the
player earns extra points.
The \uicontrol{Left} cursor key moves the current piece one space to the left, the
\uicontrol{Right} cursor key moves it one space to the right, the \uicontrol{Up} cursor
key rotates the piece counter-clockwise by 90 degrees, and the \uicontrol{Down}
cursor key rotates the piece clockwise by 90 degrees.
To avoid waiting for a piece to fall to the bottom of the board, press \uicontrol{D}
to immediately move the piece down by one row, or press the \uicontrol{Space} key to
drop it as close to the bottom of the board as possible.
This example shows how a simple game can be created using only three classes:
\list
\li The \c TetrixWindow class is used to display the player's score, number of
lives, and information about the next piece to appear.
\li The \c TetrixBoard class contains the game logic, handles keyboard input, and
displays the pieces on the playing area.
\li The \c TetrixPiece class contains information about each piece.
\endlist
In this approach, the \c TetrixBoard class is the most complex class, since it
handles the game logic and rendering. One benefit of this is that the
\c TetrixWindow and \c TetrixPiece classes are very simple and contain only a
minimum of code.
\section1 TetrixWindow Class Definition
The \c TetrixWindow class is used to display the game information and contains
the playing area:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixwindow.h 0
We use private member variables for the board, various display widgets, and
buttons to allow the user to start a new game, pause the current game, and quit.
Although the window inherits QWidget, the constructor does not provide an
argument to allow a parent widget to be specified. This is because the window
will always be used as a top-level widget.
\section1 TetrixWindow Class Implementation
The constructor sets up the user interface elements for the game:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixwindow.cpp 0
We begin by constructing a \c TetrixBoard instance for the playing area and a
label that shows the next piece to be dropped into the playing area; the label
is initially empty.
Three QLCDNumber objects are used to display the score, number of lives, and
lines removed. These initially show default values, and will be filled in
when a game begins:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixwindow.cpp 1
Three buttons with shortcuts are constructed so that the user can start a
new game, pause the current game, and quit the application:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixwindow.cpp 2
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixwindow.cpp 3
These buttons are configured so that they never receive the keyboard focus;
we want the keyboard focus to remain with the \c TetrixBoard instance so that
it receives all the keyboard events. Nonetheless, the buttons will still respond
to \uicontrol{Alt} key shortcuts.
We connect \l{QAbstractButton::}{clicked()} signals from the \uicontrol{Start}
and \uicontrol{Pause} buttons to the board, and from the \uicontrol{Quit} button to the
application's \l{QApplication::}{quit()} slot.
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixwindow.cpp 4
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixwindow.cpp 5
Signals from the board are also connected to the LCD widgets for the purpose of
updating the score, number of lives, and lines removed from the playing area.
We place the label, LCD widgets, and the board into a QGridLayout
along with some labels that we create with the \c createLabel() convenience
function:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixwindow.cpp 6
Finally, we set the grid layout on the widget, give the window a title, and
resize it to an appropriate size.
The \c createLabel() convenience function simply creates a new label on the
heap, gives it an appropriate alignment, and returns it to the caller:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixwindow.cpp 7
Since each label will be used in the widget's layout, it will become a child
of the \c TetrixWindow widget and, as a result, it will be deleted when the
window is deleted.
\section1 TetrixPiece Class Definition
The \c TetrixPiece class holds information about a piece in the game's
playing area, including its shape, position, and the range of positions it can
occupy on the board:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixpiece.h 0
Each shape contains four blocks, and these are defined by the \c coords private
member variable. Additionally, each piece has a high-level description that is
stored internally in the \c pieceShape variable.
The constructor is written inline in the definition, and simply ensures that
each piece is initially created with no shape. The \c shape() function simply
returns the contents of the \c pieceShape variable, and the \c x() and \c y()
functions return the x and y-coordinates of any given block in the shape.
\section1 TetrixPiece Class Implementation
The \c setRandomShape() function is used to select a random shape for a piece:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixpiece.cpp 0
For convenience, it simply chooses a random shape from the \c TetrixShape enum
and calls the \c setShape() function to perform the task of positioning the
blocks.
The \c setShape() function uses a look-up table of pieces to associate each
shape with an array of block positions:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixpiece.cpp 1
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixpiece.cpp 2
These positions are read from the table into the piece's own array of positions,
and the piece's internal shape information is updated to use the new shape.
The \c x() and \c y() functions are implemented inline in the class definition,
returning positions defined on a grid that extends horizontally and vertically
with coordinates from -2 to 2. Although the predefined coordinates for each
piece only vary horizontally from -1 to 1 and vertically from -1 to 2, each
piece can be rotated by 90, 180, and 270 degrees.
The \c minX() and \c maxX() functions return the minimum and maximum horizontal
coordinates occupied by the blocks that make up the piece:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixpiece.cpp 3
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixpiece.cpp 4
Similarly, the \c minY() and \c maxY() functions return the minimum and maximum
vertical coordinates occupied by the blocks:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixpiece.cpp 5
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixpiece.cpp 6
The \c rotatedLeft() function returns a new piece with the same shape as an
existing piece, but rotated counter-clockwise by 90 degrees:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixpiece.cpp 7
Similarly, the \c rotatedRight() function returns a new piece with the same
shape as an existing piece, but rotated clockwise by 90 degrees:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixpiece.cpp 9
These last two functions enable each piece to create rotated copies of itself.
\section1 TetrixBoard Class Definition
The \c TetrixBoard class inherits from QFrame and contains the game logic and display features:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.h 0
Apart from the \c setNextPieceLabel() function and the \c start() and \c pause()
public slots, we only provide public functions to reimplement QWidget::sizeHint()
and QWidget::minimumSizeHint(). The signals are used to communicate changes to
the player's information to the \c TetrixWindow instance.
The rest of the functionality is provided by reimplementations of protected event
handlers and private functions:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.h 1
The board is composed of a fixed-size array whose elements correspond to
spaces for individual blocks. Each element in the array contains a \c TetrixShape
value corresponding to the type of shape that occupies that element.
Each shape on the board will occupy four elements in the array, and these will
all contain the enum value that corresponds to the type of the shape.
We use a QBasicTimer to control the rate at which pieces fall toward the bottom
of the playing area. This allows us to provide an implementation of
\l{QObject::}{timerEvent()} that we can use to update the widget.
\section1 TetrixBoard Class Implementation
In the constructor, we customize the frame style of the widget, ensure that
keyboard input will be received by the widget by using Qt::StrongFocus for the
focus policy, and initialize the game state:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 0
The first (next) piece is also set up with a random shape.
The \c setNextPieceLabel() function is used to pass in an externally-constructed
label to the board, so that it can be shown alongside the playing area:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 1
We provide a reasonable size hint and minimum size hint for the board, based on
the size of the space for each block in the playing area:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 2
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 3
By using a minimum size hint, we indicate to the layout in the parent widget
that the board should not shrink below a minimum size.
A new game is started when the \c start() slot is called. This resets the
game's state, the player's score and level, and the contents of the board:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 4
We also emit signals to inform other components of these changes before creating
a new piece that is ready to be dropped into the playing area. We start the
timer that determines how often the piece drops down one row on the board.
The \c pause() slot is used to temporarily stop the current game by stopping the
internal timer:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 5
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 6
We perform checks to ensure that the game can only be paused if it is already
running and not already paused.
The \c paintEvent() function is straightforward to implement. We begin by
calling the base class's implementation of \l{QWidget::}{paintEvent()} before
constructing a QPainter for use on the board:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 7
Since the board is a subclass of QFrame, we obtain a QRect that covers the area
\e inside the frame decoration before drawing our own content.
If the game is paused, we want to hide the existing state of the board and
show some text. We achieve this by painting text onto the widget and returning
early from the function. The rest of the painting is performed after this point.
The position of the top of the board is found by subtracting the total height
of each space on the board from the bottom of the frame's internal rectangle.
For each space on the board that is occupied by a piece, we call the
\c drawSquare() function to draw a block at that position.
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 8
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 9
Spaces that are not occupied by blocks are left blank.
Unlike the existing pieces on the board, the current piece is drawn
block-by-block at its current position:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 10
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 11
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 12
The \c keyPressEvent() handler is called whenever the player presses a key while
the \c TetrixBoard widget has the keyboard focus.
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 13
If there is no current game, the game is running but paused, or if there is no
current shape to control, we simply pass on the event to the base class.
We check whether the event is about any of the keys that the player uses to
control the current piece and, if so, we call the relevant function to handle
the input:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 14
In the case where the player presses a key that we are not interested in, we
again pass on the event to the base class's implementation of
\l{QWidget::}{keyPressEvent()}.
The \c timerEvent() handler is called every time the class's QBasicTimer
instance times out. We need to check that the event we receive corresponds to
our timer. If it does, we can update the board:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 15
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 16
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 17
If a row (or line) has just been filled, we create a new piece and reset the
timer; otherwise we move the current piece down by one row. We let the base
class handle other timer events that we receive.
The \c clearBoard() function simply fills the board with the
\c TetrixShape::NoShape value:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 18
The \c dropDown() function moves the current piece down as far as possible on
the board, either until it is touching the bottom of the playing area or it is
stacked on top of another piece:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 19
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 20
The number of rows the piece has dropped is recorded and passed to the
\c pieceDropped() function so that the player's score can be updated.
The \c oneLineDown() function is used to move the current piece down by one row
(line), either when the user presses the \uicontrol{D} key or when the piece is
scheduled to move:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 21
If the piece cannot drop down by one line, we call the \c pieceDropped() function
with zero as the argument to indicate that it cannot fall any further, and that
the player should receive no extra points for the fall.
The \c pieceDropped() function itself is responsible for awarding points to the
player for positioning the current piece, checking for full rows on the board
and, if no lines have been removed, creating a new piece to replace the current
one:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 22
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 23
We call \c removeFullLines() each time a piece has been dropped. This scans
the board from bottom to top, looking for blank spaces on each row.
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 24
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 25
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 26
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 27
If a row contains no blank spaces, the rows above it are copied down by one row
to compress the stack of pieces, the top row on the board is cleared, and the
number of full lines found is incremented.
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 28
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 29
If some lines have been removed, the player's score and the total number of lines
removed are updated. The \c linesRemoved() and \c scoreChanged() signals are
emitted to send these new values to other widgets in the window.
Additionally, we set the timer to elapse after half a second, set the
\c isWaitingAfterLine flag to indicate that lines have been removed, unset
the piece's shape to ensure that it is not drawn, and update the widget.
The next time that the \c timerEvent() handler is called, a new piece will be
created and the game will continue.
The \c newPiece() function places the next available piece at the top of the
board, and creates a new piece with a random shape:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 30
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 31
We place a new piece in the middle of the board at the top. The game is over if
the piece can't move, so we unset its shape to prevent it from being drawn, stop
the timer, and unset the \c isStarted flag.
The \c showNextPiece() function updates the label that shows the next piece to
be dropped:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 32
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 33
We draw the piece's component blocks onto a pixmap that is then set on the label.
The \c tryMove() function is used to determine whether a piece can be positioned
at the specified coordinates:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 34
We examine the spaces on the board that the piece needs to occupy and, if they
are already occupied by other pieces, we return \c false to indicate that the
move has failed.
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 35
If the piece could be placed on the board at the desired location, we update the
current piece and its position, update the widget, and return \c true to indicate
success.
The \c drawSquare() function draws the blocks (normally squares) that make up
each piece using different colors for pieces with different shapes:
\snippet widgets/widgets/tetrix/tetrixboard.cpp 36
We obtain the color to use from a look-up table that relates each shape to an
RGB value, and use the painter provided to draw the block at the specified
coordinates.
*/