chess board in java

Question

This is my code below

import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;

public class board2 {

JFrame frame;
JPanel squares[][] = new JPanel[8][8];

public board2()          


        

Answer 1

I would like submitting a simple chess board drawing example using Unicode characters. There 3 classes involved into this tiny project.

ChessLabel.java

import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Font;
import javax.swing.JLabel;
import javax.swing.SwingConstants;


public class ChessLabel extends JLabel {

    Font font     = new Font("Ariel", Font.PLAIN, 24);
    Color bgLight = new Color(222, 184, 135);
    Color bgDark  = new Color(139, 69, 19);

    ChessLabel(String s)
    {
        super(s);
    }

    void set(int idx, int row)
    {
      setFont(font);
          setOpaque(true);
          setBackground((idx+row)%2 == 0 ? bgDark : bgLight);
          setHorizontalAlignment( SwingConstants.CENTER );
    }

}

Board.java

import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.JFrame;


public class Board extends JFrame {


   //Initialise arrays to hold panels and images of the board

    private ChessLabel[] labels = new ChessLabel[] {

    // white
    new ChessLabel("\u2656"), new ChessLabel("\u2658"), new ChessLabel("\u2657"), 
    new ChessLabel("\u2655"), new ChessLabel("\u2654"), new ChessLabel("\u2657"), 
    new ChessLabel("\u2658"), new ChessLabel("\u2656"), new ChessLabel("\u2659"), 
    new ChessLabel("\u2659"), new ChessLabel("\u2659"), new ChessLabel("\u2659"),
    new ChessLabel("\u2659"), new ChessLabel("\u2659"), new ChessLabel("\u2659"), 
    new  ChessLabel("\u2659"), 
    // empty
    new ChessLabel(" "), new ChessLabel(" "), new ChessLabel(" "), 
    new ChessLabel(" "), new ChessLabel(" "), new ChessLabel(" "), 
    new ChessLabel(" "), new ChessLabel(" "), new ChessLabel(" "), 
    new ChessLabel(" "), new ChessLabel(" "), new ChessLabel(" "), 
    new ChessLabel(" "), new ChessLabel(" "), new ChessLabel(" "), 
    new ChessLabel(" "), new ChessLabel(" "), new ChessLabel(" "), 
    new ChessLabel(" "), new ChessLabel(" "), new ChessLabel(" "), 
    new ChessLabel(" "), new ChessLabel(" "), new ChessLabel(" "),
    new ChessLabel(" "), new ChessLabel(" "), new ChessLabel(" "), 
    new ChessLabel(" "), new ChessLabel(" "), new ChessLabel(" "), 
    new ChessLabel(" "), new ChessLabel(" "),
    // black
    new ChessLabel("\u265F"), new ChessLabel("\u265F"), new ChessLabel("\u265F"), 
    new ChessLabel("\u265F"), new ChessLabel("\u265F"), new ChessLabel("\u265F"), 
    new ChessLabel("\u265F"), new ChessLabel("\u265F"), new ChessLabel("\u265C"), 
    new ChessLabel("\u265E"), new ChessLabel("\u265D"), new ChessLabel("\u265B"), 
    new ChessLabel("\u265A"), new ChessLabel("\u265D"), new ChessLabel("\u265E"), 
    new ChessLabel("\u265C")
    };

    public Board() 
    {

    } // Board()

    void display()
    {
        setTitle("Chess board with unicode images");

        setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);

        Container contentPane = getContentPane();
        GridLayout gridLayout = new GridLayout(8, 8);

        contentPane.setLayout(gridLayout);

        int row = -1;
        for (int i = 0; i < labels.length; i++) 
        {
            if(i % 8 == 0) row ++; // increment row number
            labels[i].set(i, row);
            contentPane.add(labels[i]);
        } // i

        setSize(600, 600);
        setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        setVisible(true);
     } // display()

} // class Board

And ChessBoardTest.java

public class ChessBoardTest {

    /**
     * @param args the command line arguments
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        Board board = new Board();

        board.display();
    }

}