Chess::Piece Class Reference

A chess piece. More...

#include <piece.h>

Public Member Functions
bool	isEmpty () const
bool	isValid () const
bool	isWall () const
bool	operator!= (const Piece &other) const
bool	operator< (const Piece &other) const
bool	operator== (const Piece &other) const
bool	operator> (const Piece &other) const
	Piece (int type=NoPiece)
	Piece (Side side, int type)
void	setSide (Side side)
void	setType (int type)
Side	side () const
int	type () const

Static Public Attributes
static const int	NoPiece = 0
static const int	WallPiece = 100

Detailed Description

A chess piece.

The Piece class represents the contents of a square on the chessboard. It can be an empty piece (NoPiece) or a wall piece (WallPiece) belonging to neither player (NoSide), or it can be any chess piece belonging to either White or Black.

For performance reasons the class is just a wrapper for integer, and it has a constructor for implicitly converting integers to Piece objects.

Note

A Board object is needed to convert between a Piece and a string.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Chess::Piece::Piece ( int  type = NoPiece )

inline

Creates a new piece of type type for NoSide.

Chess::Piece::Piece ( Side  side, int  type  )

inline

Creates a new piece of type type for side.

Member Function Documentation

bool Chess::Piece::isEmpty ( ) const

inline

Returns true if the piece is empty (type is NoPiece).

bool Chess::Piece::isValid ( ) const

inline

Returns true if this is a valid chess piece.

bool Chess::Piece::isWall ( ) const

inline

Returns true if this is a wall piece (inaccessible square).

bool Chess::Piece::operator!= ( const Piece &  other ) const

inline

Returns true if other is different from this piece.

bool Chess::Piece::operator< ( const Piece &  other ) const

inline

Returns true if this piece is less than other.

bool Chess::Piece::operator== ( const Piece &  other ) const

inline

Returns true if other is the same as this piece.

bool Chess::Piece::operator> ( const Piece &  other ) const

inline

Returns true if this piece is more than other.

void Chess::Piece::setSide ( Side  side )

inline

Sets the side to side.

void Chess::Piece::setType ( int  type )

inline

Sets the type to type.

Side Chess::Piece::side ( ) const

inline

Returns the side the piece belongs to.

int Chess::Piece::type ( ) const

inline

Returns the type of the piece.

Member Data Documentation

const int Chess::Piece::NoPiece = 0

static

No piece. Used for empty squares.

const int Chess::Piece::WallPiece = 100

static

A wall square outside of board.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

• projects/lib/src/board/piece.h