Blackjack- buttons and if statements

[juggernot]

I'm creating a blackjack program, and have hit a small snag. When the player presses the next card button, I'll use random numbers between 1 and 10, which will be the value of the card. Once the value is decided I'll show the picture of the appropriate card. For one value their is a few appropriate cards, so I'll find a way to make it pick between them. The only problem is I need to do the same thing to the next picture box the next time he presses the same button. Can someone help me out with that?

 

[James Francis]

Try this

Heres what I would do. Create an array for the hand itself, lets call it
hand(8). Then created two arrays for the cards IE: cardvalue(10) and cardcheck(10). When the user is draws the first card, it's value (found in cardvalue(random number) its value is placed into hand(1st card) and a value of "true" is palced into cardcheck(same value as cardvalue). Then when the next card is drawn, if cardvalue(newcard) = false then keep it, else draw another. I use a similar method in a poker program I am working on.

 

[JohnH]

Did you loose your deck of cards, juggernot? http://www.vbdotnetforums.com/showthread.php?t=14404

 

[juggernot]

I never really got that to work, getting it so that I couldn't pick the same card twice. To be fair, I have not really looked at it. I've been really busy, and for some reason I started another program before finishing that one. I should go back and finish it, but I think that will only happen after I'm done my login program. Which doesn't really make more sense, because the log in program is more advanced.

 

[JohnH]

the DrawCard method showed how to pick a random card and remove it from the collection.

 

[SDavied]

The way I approached this game is by creating 3 classes for the cards:

Card
Deck
Hand

The card class contains the information for 1 card. The deck is an array of 52 Card objects. This class also implements a shuffle() method. The hand has an arraylist member that is added to when a player hits.

If you would like more detail, ask and I will show.

SD