Create game board in matlab

I want to create a board that displays for the user to see. I then want the user to be able to enter an x and y coordinate and replace that value with the value from another board.

Example: Board user sees:

 1 2 3 4 5
1 x x x x x
2 x x x x x
3 x x x x x
4 x x x x x
5 x x x x x

Actual board:

    1 2 3 4 5
  1 x x x x x
  2 x x x k x
  3 k x x x x
  4 x x k x x
  5 x x x x x

So if the user enters in x=3 and y=4 the new board the user sees is:

    1 2 3 4 5
  1 x x x x x
  2 x x x x x
  3 x x x x x
  4 x x k x x
  5 x x x x x

Answer 1

[arushi]

Hi Krish,

To implement a system where a user can enter coordinates to update a visible board with values from another board, you can follow these steps :

% Initialize the boards
visibleBoard = repmat('x', 5, 5);
actualBoard = [
    'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x';
    'x', 'x', 'x', 'k', 'x';
    'k', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x';
    'x', 'x', 'k', 'x', 'x';
    'x', 'x', 'x', 'x', 'x'
];

% Function to display the board
function displayBoard(board)
    disp('  1 2 3 4 5');
    for i = 1:size(board, 1)
        fprintf('%d ', i);
        fprintf('%s ', board(i, :));
        fprintf('\n');
    end
end

% Main loop
while true
    % Display the current visible board
    disp('Current Board:');
    displayBoard(visibleBoard);
    
    % Get user input
    x = input('Enter the x coordinate (1-5): ');
    y = input('Enter the y coordinate (1-5): ');
    
    % Validate input
    if x < 1 || x > 5 || y < 1 || y > 5
        disp('Invalid coordinates. Please enter values between 1 and 5.');
        continue;
    end
    
    % Update the visible board with the value from the actual board
    visibleBoard(y, x) = actualBoard(y, x);
    
    % Display the updated board
    disp('Updated Board:');
    displayBoard(visibleBoard);
    
    % Check if the user wants to continue
    cont = input('Do you want to enter another coordinate? (y/n): ', 's');
    if strcmpi(cont, 'n')
        break;
    end
end

Hope this helps.