hi guys im new to this whole programming thing. i have recently got a homework assignment for a simple 2 player memory/matching game, i am having trouble getting this aray right, what am i dong wrong? there are 20 blank boxes to match, giving a total of 10 matches, the array i have so far is as follows



I hope that someone can help me, this is my final for the class and its due in 9 days. note this project has alot of work to be done, i am so lost in this class plz someone help me!!! I went ahead and attached what i have done so far.
any comments or suggestions will help greatly. Thank you in advance.

A few problems here... first of all you only have images from 00-04, 10-14,20-24,30-34. Notice anything here? None of them include 4 at the beginning and none of them include 5 at the end. So your for loops will have to be incrementing from 0-3 and 0-4 respectively.

I also notice you don't have an Imagelist included in your project. You have to draw one onto your gameForm and then access it through its name "Imagelist1". Right now what you are seeing is the ImageList object, not an instance of it on your project. You have to add it to the project and load it up with images. You can load it with images through its Image collection property in the property window or by specifying its name along with its images collection imagelist1.images.add(iconorimageobjecthere).

Next I notice that you don't load up the array gamePlayInteger. You are going to have to put some values into that array if you wish to get values back out of it.

I also notice you don't have a winnerLabel on your summaryForm but then you reference it in code. So make sure you change that by adding the label or removing the code referring to the label.

Here is something I was tinkering with that may help you get on the right path. I added an Imagelist icon to the form and then loaded it with 20 images. I moved some looping code to the form_load event to load up the pictureboxes with images. This shows you how to go about pulling images out of the imagelist and put into pictureboxes.

    Private Sub gameForm_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
        startGame()
        Dim gamePositionPictureBox As PictureBox
        For rowInteger As Integer = 0 To 3 
            For columnInteger As Integer = 0 To 4

                gamePositionPictureBox = CType((Me.Controls("PictureBox" & rowInteger & columnInteger)), PictureBox)
                gamePositionPictureBox.Image = ImageList1.Images.Item(rowInteger + columnInteger)
            Next
        Next
    End Sub

You of course will need to change this around but you will get t he idea of how things are put together and how to go about setting some of these pictureboxes you have made.

So play around with it and see if you can get the pictures loading into your pictureboxes at first and that your project compiles.

Thank you so much for your help. I will have time tomorrow to play around and see if I can get this stuff to work.

ok i have got the images to load to the form, first of all i have some questions, 1.how do i get it to load only 2 of the same pic? 2. how can i get it to randomize pics? 3.how do i hide pics, so when someone clicks on the blank space the pic then shows? once again i am a newbie when it comes to this stuff so i basically have no idea what im doing is there anywhere you can reccomend that will help me? Thanks in advance



i have uploaded what i have so far again, this project isnt going as well as i had hoped, it is due on dec. 11th, hope i can get this stuff and get it to work by then! thanks again

If your planning to this game I got a suggestion why not make multiple array for the coordinates of the picture dim picture[8][8] as string

huh? exactly what do ya mean by this? As I've mentioned three times before im new to this stuff and have no idea what im doing!