edu.drexel.cs.ai.othello
Class HumanOthelloPlayer

java.lang.Object
  edu.drexel.cs.ai.othello.OthelloPlayer
      edu.drexel.cs.ai.othello.HumanOthelloPlayer

public final class HumanOthelloPlayer
extends OthelloPlayer

An interface for having a human play othello through the user interface.

Author:

Evan A. Sultanik

Constructor Summary

HumanOthelloPlayer(java.lang.String name)
Creates a new agent that plays according to human input.

Method Summary

Square	getMove(GameState currentState, java.util.Date deadline) Returns the next move as input by the human from the UI.
void	handleUIInput(Square square) Callback function for receiving the next move from the UI.

Methods inherited from class edu.drexel.cs.ai.othello.OthelloPlayer

getMillisUntilDeadline, getName, log, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

HumanOthelloPlayer

public HumanOthelloPlayer(java.lang.String name)

Creates a new agent that plays according to human input.

Method Detail

handleUIInput

public void handleUIInput(Square square)

Callback function for receiving the next move from the UI.

getMove

public Square getMove(GameState currentState,
                      java.util.Date deadline)

Returns the next move as input by the human from the UI. Note that this function will block until the UI makes a call to handleUIInput(Square) with the next move. Also, the HumanOthelloPlayer agent will always have an infinite deadline.

Specified by:

getMove in class OthelloPlayer