A-Star demonstration

This program is aimed to show how A-Star algorithm works in practice and its all written in Java.

Start

Download the A-StarTest.jar and run it.

Requirements

Java 1.5 or above to run.

Control

Simply press space on your keyboard for more directions:

left mouse for placing block.
right mouse for removing block.
1 for start point.
2 for goal point.
3 for obstacle blocks.
R for reset the map.
P toggle displaying the path.
enter for starting path-finding.

Known Issues

On Mac you can drag the cursor to draw blocks, but on Windows sorry you can't :( Due to the difference of implementing mouse draging method on different platform, and I am too lazy to fix it. ^_^

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