🐛 small change in order of operations

gwendolyn/funcs/games/connect_four.py

@@ -167,14 +167,13 @@ class ConnectFour():
             log_message = "They started a game"
 
         self.bot.log(log_message)
+        await ctx.send(send_message)
 
         # Sets the whole game in motion
         if started_game:
             boards_path = "gwendolyn/resources/games/connect_four_boards/"
             file_path = f"{boards_path}board{ctx.channel_id}.png"
-            image_message = await ctx.send(
+            image_message = await ctx.send(file=discord.File(file_path))
-                send_message, file=discord.File(file_path)
-            )
 
             board_string = self._encode_board_string(board)
             if gwendolyn_turn:
@@ -229,8 +228,6 @@ class ConnectFour():
                 await image_message.edit(
                     components=action_rows
                 )
-        else:
-            await ctx.send(send_message)
 
     async def place_piece(self, ctx: ComponentContext, board_string: str,
                           column: int, players: list[int], difficulty: int,
@@ -242,6 +239,8 @@ class ConnectFour():
             column: int
                 The column the player is placing the piece in.
         """
+        old_message = await ctx.channel.fetch_message(message_id)
+        await old_message.delete()
 
         player_number = players.index(placer)+1
         user_name = self.get_name(f"#{placer}")
@@ -286,6 +285,7 @@ class ConnectFour():
             placed_piece = True
 
         self.bot.log(log_message)
+        await ctx.channel.send(send_message)
 
         if placed_piece:
             channel = str(ctx.channel)
@@ -295,8 +295,7 @@ class ConnectFour():
 
             boards_path = "gwendolyn/resources/games/connect_four_boards/"
             file_path = boards_path + f"board{channel}.png"
-            image_message = await ctx.channel.send(
+            image_message = await ctx.channel.send(file=discord.File(file_path))
-                send_message, file=discord.File(file_path))
 
             if game_won:
                 self._end_game(winner, players, difficulty)
@@ -355,11 +354,7 @@ class ConnectFour():
                     await image_message.edit(
                         components=action_rows
                     )
-        else:
-            await ctx.channel.send(send_message)
 
-        old_message = await ctx.channel.fetch_message(message_id)
-        await old_message.delete()
 
     async def surrender(self, ctx: ComponentContext, players: list,
                         difficulty: int, message_id: int):

gwendolyn/funcs/games/hangman.py

@@ -92,11 +92,11 @@ class Hangman():
         send_message = f"{ctx.author.display_name} started a game of hangman."
 
         self.bot.log("Game started")
+        await ctx.send(send_message)
 
         boards_path = "gwendolyn/resources/games/hangman_boards/"
         file_path = f"{boards_path}hangman_board{game_id}.png"
-        image_message = await ctx.send(
+        image_message = await ctx.channel.send(
-            send_message,
             file=discord.File(file_path)
         )
 
@@ -165,6 +165,10 @@ class Hangman():
                 The context of the command.
         """
 
+        for msg_id in messages:
+            msg = await ctx.channel.fetch_message(msg_id)
+            await msg.delete()
+
         self.bot.log("Deleting old messages")
 
         await ctx.channel.send("Hangman game stopped")
@@ -172,10 +176,6 @@ class Hangman():
         file_path = f"{boards_path}hangman_board{game_id}.png"
         os.remove(file_path)
 
-        for msg_id in messages:
-            msg = await ctx.channel.fetch_message(msg_id)
-            await msg.delete()
-
     async def guess(self, ctx: ComponentContext, guess: str, word: str,
                     guessed_letters: str, game_id: str, *messages: list[str]):
         """
@@ -190,6 +190,9 @@ class Hangman():
             guess: str
                 The guess.
         """
+        for msg_id in messages:
+            msg = await ctx.channel.fetch_message(msg_id)
+            await msg.delete()
 
         misses = 0
         guessed_letters += guess
@@ -228,10 +231,10 @@ class Hangman():
 
 
         if remaining_letters != []:
+            await ctx.channel.send(send_message)
             boards_path = "gwendolyn/resources/games/hangman_boards/"
             file_path = f"{boards_path}hangman_board{game_id}.png"
             image_message = await ctx.channel.send(
-                send_message,
                 file=discord.File(file_path)
             )
             blank_message_one = await ctx.channel.send("_ _")
@@ -291,11 +294,6 @@ class Hangman():
 
             os.remove(file_path)
 
-        for msg_id in messages:
-            msg = await ctx.channel.fetch_message(msg_id)
-            await msg.delete()
-
-