The Task: Try this one yourself - Write an applet that displays a chess board on the screen. So what I am asking for is as in Figure 7.3, “ChessBoard Applet”. Id don't expect you to have to draw 64 separate boxes, so I am expecting that you will use your coding skills to minimise the amount of code to be written.

You can see it running (not that it does much!) here - The Chess Board Applet

Some Useful Information: Some of the methods that can be used with the Graphics object g are:

Where Color is a class in java.awt.Color that has certain defined colors, for example g.setColor(Color.red). So for example to draw a red line the code might look like: (DrawRedLine.java)

 1 
 2   
 3  import java.awt.Graphics;
 4  import java.awt.Color;
 5  import java.applet.Applet;
 6 
 7  public class DrawRedLine extends Applet
 8  {
 9    public void paint(Graphics g)
10    {
11      g.setColor(Color.red);
12      g.drawLine(10,10,50,50);
13    }
14  }
15   
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This code will result in an applet that looks like Figure 7.4, “DrawRedLine Applet”.

Solution: My Solution is here (there are many), but don't look at it until you have had a good attempt!

Chess Example Solution