Counting moves in puzzle?

[hodgey87]

Hey Everyone,

Just in need of abit of help if possible

Im trying to build a slider puzzle at the moment, id like to be able to count the number of moves that are made in the puzzle. Ive started out like this so far:

play.h set up an integer and label.

int moves;
CCLabel *moveLabel;

play.m created the label to show the amount of moves.

moveLabel = [[CCLabel labelWithString: [NSString stringWithFormat:@"Moves: %d", moves] dimensions: CGSizeMake(130, 27) alignment: UITextAlignmentRight fontName:@"Marker Felt" fontSize: 25.0] retain]; 
    moveLabel.position = ccp(55,430); 
    [self schedule: @selector(tick3:) interval:1.0];
[self addChild: moveLabel];

The code that swaps the tiles is like so, i added the moves++; to the bottom of it:

-(void) changeWithTileA: (Tile *) a TileB: (Tile *) b sel : (SEL) sel{
    CCAction *actionA = [CCSequence actions:[CCMoveTo actionWithDuration:kMoveTileTime position:[b pixPosition]], [CCCallFuncND actionWithTarget:self selector:sel data: a], nil];

    CCAction *actionB = [CCSequence actions:[CCMoveTo actionWithDuration:kMoveTileTime position:[a pixPosition]], [CCCallFuncND actionWithTarget:self selector:sel data: b], nil];
    [a.sprite runAction:actionA];
    [b.sprite runAction:actionB];

    [a trade:b];

    moves++;
}

My thoughts were this would count every move that would be made, but im not sure how to reference this method in the label at the top specifically on this line:

   [self schedule: @selector() interval:1.0];

tick3: isnt used anywhere, just wondered if any could help me out.

Cheers

[Rithika8765]

Nice stuff.

[hodgey87]

Anyone able to help?

[Domele]

By tick3: isn't used anywhere, do you mean you have written a method called that? Btw, I haven't had any experience in Cocos2d.

Why don't you create a function that updates the label and call that function every time a move is made?

[hodgey87]

Originally Posted by Domele

By tick3: isn't used anywhere, do you mean you have written a method called that? Btw, I haven't had any experience in Cocos2d.

Why don't you create a function that updates the label and call that function every time a move is made?

Cheers for your reply, i know i used tick3: just as an example, in the label i thought i could call the tile swapping method using this:

[self schedule: @selector(  ) interval:1.0];

But im not sure how to actually call:

-(void) changeWithTileA: (Tile *) a TileB: (Tile *) b sel : (SEL) sel{
    CCAction *actionA = [CCSequence actions:[CCMoveTo actionWithDuration:kMoveTileTime position:[b pixPosition]], [CCCallFuncND actionWithTarget:self selector:sel data: a], nil];

    CCAction *actionB = [CCSequence actions:[CCMoveTo actionWithDuration:kMoveTileTime position:[a pixPosition]], [CCCallFuncND actionWithTarget:self selector:sel data: b], nil];
    [a.sprite runAction:actionA];
    [b.sprite runAction:actionB];

    [a trade:b];

    moves++;
}

[Domele]

Why don't you just call the method directly? Why do you need a scheduler (not really familiar with schedulers)?