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Posted by Oscar Armenta
Oscar Armenta
641 Points

Making my own app

Hi community, I know this is not completely related but. I am trying to make my own app, is about a concentration game. Given a bunch of cards facing down, you have to find the pairs. But for some reason my app doesn't show the rest of the emojis (I decided to put emojis instead of images) I think the mistake is in the view controller, inside the touchCardHelper function. If you see it you will understand. However I have try many things so is changing the instance of the structure, not making more copies of the structure, cuze that's what it seems to be doing. I have not idea whatsoever of what is going on. Please help me :(

P.D. I have already wrote the rest of the code within the touchCardHelper function so the game does more things, however I just put this here because not even the basic actions are working :(

Modeling the card structure code:

public struct Card { var identifier = 0

var isFaceUp = false

var isMatched = false

var isRecognizable = 0

var emoji = "😈"

var hasEmoji = false

}

Modeling the game class structure:

public class Game { var cards = Card

var points = 3

let emojis = ["👽", "🥳", "😈", "👾"]


init(PairOfCards: Int) {
    for _ in 1...PairOfCards {
        var card = Card()
        card.identifier += 1
        for unicode in emojis {
            if card.hasEmoji == false {
                card.emoji = unicode
                card.hasEmoji = true
            }
        }
        cards.append(card)
        cards.append(card)
        cards.shuffle()
    }
}

}

Modeling the view controller:

 var kakaoGame = Game(PairOfCards: 2)

@IBAction func touchCard(_ sender: UIButton) {
    touchCardHelper(sender)
}

func cardChanger (cardInstance: inout Card) -> Void
{
    cardInstance.isFaceUp = true
}

func touchCardHelper(_ button: UIButton) -> Void {
    print("Hey I am working")
    for var eachCard in kakaoGame.cards {
        print("entering the for loop")
        if button.backgroundColor == #colorLiteral(red: 0, green: 0, blue: 0, alpha: 1) && eachCard.isFaceUp == false {
            print("entering the if statement")
            button.setTitle(eachCard.emoji, for: UIControl.State.normal)
            cardChanger(cardInstance: &eachCard)
            print("\(eachCard.isFaceUp)")
            button.backgroundColor = #colorLiteral(red: 0.9999960065, green: 1, blue: 1, alpha: 1)
        }
    }


}

1 Answer

Oscar Armenta
Oscar Armenta
641 Points
Oscar Armenta
Oscar Armenta
641 Points

I think the problem is the fact that apparently given the pointer that represents each element within each iteration in a for loop CAN'T change the properties nor the element itself. Do somebody can confirm this please?