Room Type? - Socoder

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Socoder -> Blitz -> Room Type?
Sat, 05 Jan 2008, 15:56
Hotshot	Type Room_Grids Field Room[100] ; 100 Different Room Field X,Y ; X, Y Positions Field Room_Exit ; Room if person Exit End Type Newr.Room_Grids = New Room_Grids Room_Grids\Room[1]=LoadImage("GFX\Room_1.PNG") --v For dim arrays and it work fine but TYPE with arrays is better but why doesnt it work?
Sat, 05 Jan 2008, 16:31
HoboBen	I can't remember much Blitz at all so I don't know why arrays in types may or may not work, but you don't need to load the room image for each type. How about: (Pseudo-code) Type Room_Grids Field X,Y ; X, Y Positions Field Image ; Which room image it uses End Type Dim RoomImage[10] For i = 0 to 9 RoomImage[i] = LoadImage("GFX\Room_"+i+".PNG") Next For i = 0 to 20 New Room Room.X = Rand(0,640) Room.Y = Rand(0,480) Room.Image = Rand(0,9) Next ... While MainLoop For each Room DrawImage( RoomImage(Room.Image), Room.X, Room.Y) Next Flip Wend --v -=-=- blog \| work \| code \| more code
Sat, 05 Jan 2008, 17:19
JL235	Why not something like: const SUCCESS = 1; const FAIL = 0; Type Room field name$ field exits.Room[10] End Type Global current.Room = ; the current room in the game, with exits set up local result = MoveTo("garden") if (result = SUCCESS) print "you have moved to: " + current.name$ else print "the room was not found." endif function MoveTo(exit$) for i = 0 to 10 if current.exits[i] <> null if current.name$ = exit$ current = current.exits[i] return SUCCESS; endif endif next return FAIL; end function --v Note: That is just meant to be a general idea not a complete working code sample.
Sat, 05 Jan 2008, 17:37
Hotshot	both of them are interesting thank you I doing the enemys Type part Type Enemy Field Guard[2] ; there only 2 different Guards at the mo Field X,Y Field Energy Field Dead ;??? I am not sure about that one End Type --v what do you think of Enemy Type above?
Sun, 06 Jan 2008, 08:40
Teasy	to answer the original question: Newr.Room_Grids = New Room_Grids --v translates to: Local Newr.Room_Grids Newr = New Room_Grids --v and Room_Grids\Room[1]=LoadImage("GFX\Room_1.PNG") --v translates to: Local Room_Grids% Room_Grids\Room[1] = LoadImage( "GFX\Room_1.PNG" ) --v if you look closely you can see that Room_Grids in the last part of the code is the name of the TYPE but it should be the name of the VARIABLE e.g. Newr\Room[1] = .. --v
Sun, 06 Jan 2008, 10:01
Forklift_Fred	That's why I was confused by it then! I have just this week started to use arrays within Types and got it working with the blitzarray [] rather than normal array () and it worked perfectly. I couldn't see a problem with Hotshot's code. I always used to get confused by the Type syntax but found that using the same word worked OK so that's what I now do because it's easier to remember and handle. I'm sure someone else will be able to tell me why it's not good coding practice, where it can cause problems and where it is useful to use different variables, but at my stage in programing my method is working well enough for me so far. For example: Type Room_Grids Field Room[100] ; 100 Different Room Field X,Y ; X, Y Positions Field Room_Exit ; Room if person Exit End Type Room_Grids.Room_Grids = New Room_Grids Room_Grids\Room[1]=LoadImage("GFX\Room_1.PNG") --v It looks lazy and almost pointless but it works... I guess using different variables allows you to be handling 2 or more points in the Type stack... Thinking about it, that could be really handy... Sorry, I'm thinking aloud now! -=-=- Come rain or shine...
Sun, 06 Jan 2008, 10:33
Teasy	Yeah exactly, Fred For example when comparing Room_Grids with Room_Grids, or Enemy with Enemy, in collisions for example. There is a variable naming standard which uses the VARIABLE TYPE as part of the variable. For example: Local iNumber% ; integer Local fResult# ; floating point Local sName$ ; string Local pEnemy.ENEMY ; pointer to enemy type Local hEnemy ; handle (actually an integer :P) iNumber = 10 fResult = 0.5 sName = "The application to terminate the application will be terminated." pEnemy = New ENEMY hEnemy = Handle pEnemy --v Although in Blitz I prefer them clean (no prefix) because I like the IDE to tell me what type a variable is
Sun, 06 Jan 2008, 13:58
Hotshot	Interesting stuff there Teasy(pointer and handle is somethings else). thank you for all people who have help me. so far I got two scene(where joe blade go to one room to other) with joe blade moving and I got the jumping working but it is quite funny cos if you keep press double up then the jump will be twice high! lol It is progressing but I have to keep going with my code and if I ever get stuck...then I know where to post it cheers