Flash MX 2004 Games : Art to ActionScript

5 cBoard = new Array(64);
6 pBoard = new Array(64);
7 makeBoard();
8 initGame();
9 stop();
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Chapter 16: Board games
The arrays are used throughout the program to store the data needed. The array ‘flip’ stores
which directions from a given square have a line that can be flipped after executing a legal move.
‘board’ contains the current view of the board in a computer-friendly manner. ‘cBoard’ stores the
temporary board after the computer has made a possible move and is used in the code for evaluating
the computer’s best option. ‘pBoard’ stores the player’s move following the computer’s move and
is used for evaluating the player’s least best move after the computer has made a temporary move.
We will look at the use of these arrays in more detail later in the chapter. Then we have a call to
a simple function that duplicates and positions the single movie clip ‘piece’.
1 function makeBoard(){
2 var row, col, name, mc, count=1;
3
4 for(row=0; row