TicTacToe UI Improvements

2023-07-11

In a previous post, I showed my menu system for my TicTacToe program that I am creating. My newest story requires me to allow the user to select any board size greater than two. I chose to go about this by creating a counter corresponding with the desired board size that the user can either increment or decrement. But my current system doesn't easily allow for the creation of a counter, so what should I do? Well, since I'm using maps and multimethods to dispatch the ui-components, I simply add :type :menu to my previously made components and :type :counter to my new component. This way I can make a multimethod, draw-components that dispatches based on :type. I can the use my previous method of drawing menus and put it under the :menu method and draw the counter with the :counter implementation of the multimethod. Since the counter also updates the state differently to the regular menu, I also created a multimethod called update-ui that also dispatched based on :type. This way I can update and draw any type of ui component.