[Newbies] My first program. Design/style advice requested.

[peter h meadows]

Hi. I wondered if anyone could take a look at my code and answer some 
questions. I'm trying to write a program that lets people play Arimaa 
(Arimaa is a board game that can be played with a standard chess set. You 
can find the rules at arimaa.com but you won't need to know how to play to 
understand my code)

My code is on squeaksource: http://www.squeaksource.com/Arimaa.html

I run it by: ArimaaGameZone new openInWindow .

Click on the last two rows to position white pieces, then press the send 
button. Then click on the first two rows to position the black pieces. The 
move logic is not yet implemented, but I'm sure you get the idea of what I 
want to do.

I've tried to use a MVC design where ArimaaBoardMorph is the View, 
ArimaaBoard is the Model and ArimaaEventHandler is the controller.

So I have a different class to handle gold setup, silver setup, gold move 
and silver move (in arimaa we have gold/silver instead of black/white). 
All inherited from the ArimaaEventHandler. The board morph sends a message 
to the controller and depending on which controller is set you get 
different behaviour.

Is this the best way to do what I want? I think it's probably wrong that 
when I switch between controllers I have to copy the variables that 
contain the model and the view. How should it be done with good smalltalk 
style? Is there a simpler way? Is it right to use inheritance as I have 
done?

Any comments on other aspects are most welcome, but my main question is; 
have I done the MVC thing right? Don't be afraid to say it's all wrong, 
this is my first project and I don't mind rewriting the whole thing from 
scratch.

I realise helping me with this may take some of your time, and I am very 
grateful for any response. I hope I will stick with squeak and one day do 
something useful for the community.