Due: Midnight,
Wednesday, February 10
Now that you have designed a program to draw the Connect 4 game, it is time to play the game. Please modify your program to allow the user to select the next move with a mouse click on a column. Your program should verify that the move is a legal move, and refuse any illegal moves. If the selected move is legal, place the new piece in the column in the correct slot. For information about how Connect 4 is played, click here.
Nice user
interface features would be some visual feedback that a column has
been selected, and some indication that an incorrect move was
rejected. Turns should alternate, so that after a move of one
color, the next move must be of the opposite color. You can pick
one of the colors to always make the first move.
The program
should recognize when a player has won, and also when no more
moves are possible.
Your program
should draw the game, and should respond to callbacks to service
the mouse button and to automatically redraw the window if the
display is covered and then uncovered. The program should not quit
until either the 'q' or 'esc' key is pressed on the keyboard.
Please submit your program using the standard handin procedure. You should include your program source code and a Makefile.