JavaFX's Game of Life

There is an unwritten tradition that Hector Conway's Game of Life must be implemented in every programming language and every GUI toolkit. Well, OK I just invented this tradition, but it's a smart introduction and Life is one of the easiest games / cool animations you can program. But it's not too simple that we can't learn a few important things about JavaFX... My goal: a good-looking and feature-complete version of the Game of Life (GOL), but keeping code simple, short, "canonical". I won't resort to low-level optimizations (e.g. reaching to JavaSE APIs), but I may use high-level ones (e.g. good algorithms, careful selection of JavaFX features). How well JavaFX handles the task the way it is indented to be used? So, let's start. The complete app is short enough that it fits in this blog, in a few small pieces. class World {    var SIZE:Integer on replace { reset() }    var cells:Boolean[];    var gen:Integer;    var pop:Integer;    function reset () { gen = pop = 0; cells = for (i in [0 ..< SIZE * SIZE]) false }    bound function isLive (x:Integer, y:Integer)   { cells[y * SIZE + x] }    function flip (x:Integer, y:Integer):Void      { cells[y * SIZE + x] = not cells[y * SIZE + x] } The World class implement the game's data model and the GOL algorithm. The c...

Date: May, 21 2010
Url: http://www.java.net/blog/opinali/archive/2010/05/21/javafxs-game-life

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