This program let's you play the classic game Tic-Tac-Toe, where two players take turns placing noughts (O's) and crosses (X's) on a 3x3 playing board, and the winner is the first player to place three of their marks in a row horizontally, vertically or diagonally.
The program was created with the GO programming language. The Display functionality was created using the exp/shiny libraries.
Before running the program, you need to install the GO programming language, as well as install the exp/shiny package. The latter can be done by running this line in the terminal:
go install golang.org/x/exp/shiny/driver
To run the program, navigate to the TicTacToe-GO folder in the terminal, and type go run main.go. The game should then start, and you are good to go. To quit the program, press Ctrl+C in the terminal, or Esc while in the game.
The program has 3 modules: The Game module handles all data and logic associated with playing the game, the Display module displays the game with all its components, status and information, and main connects these two to let the user play the game. In particular, main runs the program by running the two goroutines DisplayGame() and PlayTicTacToe(), as well as creating channels that help these two monitor tile clicking, reset the game and update the display when needed.
The create-functions makes an object with -2 subtracted from the height and width, and the draw-functions adds 1 to the position. This is to avoid painting over the lines that separate the tiles in the game board.
createGameBoard() has a +1 to height and width when making gameBoardRectangle to have all the edge lines visible.
defer xxx.Release() is to avoid running out of memory
The static components, such as a cross, nought and gameboard has one function for creation and one for drawing. Dynamic components has one function that does all of this as they have to be recreated regularly.