de.tabacha.cgo
Interface BackgroundGame

All Superinterfaces:

Game

All Known Implementing Classes:

DefaultGame

public interface BackgroundGame

extends Game

A data model for a game of ConwayGo played in another Thread in the background.
$Id: BackgroundGame.java,v 1.1 2004/07/30 21:05:58 mk Exp $

Version:

$Revision: 1.1 $

Method Summary

void	abort() Aborts the game.
void	destroy() Aborts the game, kills all running processes, frees all resources.
boolean	isAlive() Returns whether the game is stopped or running.
void	play() Starts playing the game.

Methods inherited from interface de.tabacha.cgo.Game

addGameListener, getBoard, getPlayer, getPlayerToMove, removeGameListener, setPlayer

Method Detail

play

public void play()
          throws java.lang.IllegalStateException

Starts playing the game. Game is played in the background, this method returns immediately.

Specified by:

play in interface Game

Throws:

java.lang.IllegalStateException - If a player is null or the game is already running.

isAlive

public boolean isAlive()

Returns whether the game is stopped or running.

abort

public void abort()

Aborts the game.

destroy

public void destroy()

Aborts the game, kills all running processes, frees all resources. This method is a kind of finalizer and is needed to support the 'destroy' method of applets.