Minesweeper Progress

Greetings,

Last time, I was working on my plans for developing a Minesweeper clone for the litcanvas engine. Like any plan for a programming project it had to be modified along the way as their was many unique technical challenges I did not think about when originally planning it.

For example one problem I didn't realize I had to face was the fact that the engine did not have away to detect right clicks on the mouse. Since I needed to inputs one for revealing mines and another for placing flags. My solution was to track how long the user was clicking for and if it was a long press a flag would be placed otherwise it was a short press and the square could be revealed.

Another issue that I had to find a solution for was how to reveal all tiles which had zero mines as a neighbor. Originally, I wanted to develop a loop based approach for finding all of the neighboring squares. However, if there is a loop based approach I could not get it to work, so I switched to a recursive algorithm which would check each square and each of that squares' neighboring until it found one boarding a mine.

With the fundamental parts of the game complete I now need to work on a way of displaying the game in a visually interesting way and to communicate actions between different parts of the program.