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# Pawns Game

1 player 2 players

## How to play

This board game is a variant of Reversi and Tic Tac Toe. Each one of the two players sets a pawn on an empty cell of the board.

### Pawns

- Player 1
- Player 2
- Wall. Cannot be reversed.

Different themes are supported. Theme is configured through a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) that determines how the HTML content is rendered by the SWT Browser widget.

- Theme 1
- Theme 2
- Theme 3
- Theme 4

## How to win

The game ends when all cells are filled. The winner is the one with most pawns of their colour.

## Java and HTML integrated through the SWT Browser widget

Rendering is based on HTML and CSS techniques. Computer moves are programmed in regular Java code in the Eclipse plug-in. The SWT Browser widget is used for rendering and reacting to user input.

### Implementation

The board is a table filled with hyperlinks. Cascading Style Sheets provide various themes and control the table aesthetic appearance.
The API `org.eclipse.swt.browser.Browser.setText(java.lang.String)` draws the board game from HTML generated in memory.
Player moves are captured by implementing the interface `org.eclipse.swt.browser.LocationListener`. e.g the player clicks on a cell that may generate a hyperlink with a URL similar to `http://www.org.eclipse.swt.examples.browser.demos/xx1yy2`. That hyperlink identifies the position of the cell selected by the player (column 1, row 2). The move is completed by generating new HTML content and invoking `Browser.setText` to update the board game.