Hangman - Pygame

User Manual

3 difficulty level and 1 hidden color level

• Easy
• Medium
• Hard
• Color

User can either click on the menu, or they can press the number on keyboard to choose the difficulty level.

After the level of difficulty is selected, the time will start counting and user will have to guess the word.

If the user invalid input, nothing will be done. If user guess the correct alphabet, it will shows on the screen. If user guess it wrong, the chance will minus 1. User will have 10 chances.

User can enter 0 to quit the game.

5/2/2019 - Static fragment and dynamic fragment

Static fragment

• Static fragment is a fragment that can't be change during runtime.
• It uses <fragment> widget from Android Studio.
• Only .xml file.
• Nothing need to be declared in MainActivity.java

Dynamic fragment

• Dynamic fragment is a fragment that can be change during runtime.
• It uses FrameLayout widget to be a container for it.
• It needed to be declare in the MainActivity.java

For example,

Dynamic fragment sample code:

//MainActivity.java
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity
{
   //set as public static, so it can be use in other fragment activity too
   public static FragmentManager frag_manager;

   @Override
   protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)
   {
      super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
      setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

      frag_manager = getSupportFragmentManager;
      
      //the FrameLayout id = fragContainer in activity_main.xml
      if (findViewById(R.id.fragContainer) != null)
      {
         //if the item is saved, which means that there is already a item there
         if (savedInstanceState != null)
         {
            return;
         }
         
         //begin the transaction for fragment
         FragmentTransaction frag_trans = frag_manager.beginTransaction();

         //declare the first fragment item, which is the FirstFrag.java
         FirstFrag first_frag = new FirstFrag();

         //add the first_frag.xml to the FrameLayout container
         frag_trans.add(R.id.fragContainer,first_frag,false);

         //commit the fragment
         frag_trans.commit();
      }
   }

}

The code above will add the fragment into a FrameLayout container. The fragment inside the container can be change, eg. currently is first_frag.xml in FirstFrag.java, but it can be chage to second.frag.xml in SecondFrag.java too, a button can be add to perform the change of fragement during runtime.

4/2/2019 - Learning Android Studio

• Starting again...learn the very basics of Android Studio, because I think that creating a game while only learning a bit about android studio is inefficient.
• Learning it from TimKippTutorials and PRABBESH R K
• Learned until PRABBESH R K's Android tutorial(2018) - 13

1/2/2018 - Learning Android studio for the colorman dodge game

• Problem face: need to generate random amount of hailstones to fall from the sky, and need to find an algorithm to make sure that when the hailstone hit colorman, the game will end.
• Maybe will have to create another simple game to test the algorithm.
• Learning some basics from Retro Chicken.