XNA 4.0 Game Development by Example Beginner's Guide

Time for action – GamePiece class methods – part 1 – updating

1. Add the following methods to the GamePiece class:

     public void SetPiece(string type, string suffix)
     {
         pieceType = type;
         pieceSuffix = suffix;
     }
     
     public void SetPiece(string type)
     {
         SetPiece(type,"");
     }
   
     public void AddSuffix(string suffix)
     {
         if (!pieceSuffix.Contains(suffix))
             pieceSuffix += suffix;
     }
   
     public void RemoveSuffix(string suffix)
     {
         pieceSuffix = pieceSuffix.Replace(suffix, "");
     }

The first two methods are overloads with the same name, but different parameter lists. In a manner similar to the GamePiece constructors, code that wishes to update a GamePiece can pass it a piece type, and optionally a suffix.

Additional methods have been added to modify suffixes without changing the ...