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two good ways of doing text are...
either with the put command, or using Font.Draw
PUT COMMAND
put is your basic text entering code command:
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put "Hello" |
By entering this, the output screen will show up Hello on the top left corner.
put can also hold variables and numbers
Numbers:
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put "2+2" |
This displays the string: 2+2
however if
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put 2+2 |
is entered... the display answer will be 4. This is because 2+2 isn't in quotations.
Variables:
variables can also be outputed using the put command. After declaring a variable, all that is need is:
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put variablename |
and its done.
EXAMPLE:
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var mymessage:string:="Hello this is my string."
put mymessage,"How are you?" |
A "," can be used to connect two things together.
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put "":10,"yo" |
see the ":"???
this is spacing. By doing :(then a number) you've set a space between this and the next string.
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put "yo"..
put "my name is joe" |
now the ".."
two dots, connect one string to the next string in the next line.
Setting colour
first, to make a background for the text (the actual text)
use: colourback(whatever colour you want)
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colourback(10) |
this will let all text have a background of 10 instead of the default (which is probably white)
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colour(10) |
this will let your actual font colour to be the colour of 10.
Now that you know how to display text, here's how to manipulate where they're at.
Theres two ways: it can be done according to pixels, or characters
To do it according to characters, use locate
locate needs 2 numbers in brackets, such as:
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locate (4,4) |
4,4 is the 4th coordinate in rows and 4th coordinate in columns. The start point (1,1) of characters is on the top left corner of the screen.
To do it with pixels, you need:
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locatexy(100,100) |
This lets you adjust where your text is going to be with pixels instead of characters. However, the start point(0,0) is at the bottom left corner of the screen as oppose to top left corner.
Draw.Font
first thing to do when doing draw.font, is to declare it as a variable.
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var font1:int |
and yup thats all you have to do... jking
next.. declare wat the font is
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font1 := Font.New ("comicsans:14")
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Notice the first thing in the quotations is the actual font (make sure its a normal font, or else turing wont load other fonts), and followed by the font size. You can also set if its bold, italic, or underlined
for example:
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font1 := Font.New ("Comicsans:14:bold,italic")
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After declaring what font1 is... use it!
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Font.Draw ("Hello World", 50, 30, font1, red) |
see how the first thing in the brackets is the string, like we learnt using the put command. Like the put statement, this can be replaced with a variable string. the next two numbers are coordinates in pixels. Yes Font.Draw is calculated in pixels not by characters. It works exactly the same as locatexy
. Afterwards, you see font1... basically what you declared font1 as before, all goes in there 
making the message in comicsans, size 14, bold, and italic. The last thing in Font.Draw is the colour, in this case red.
And there you have it, the very basic way of doing fonts in turing. Post questions and suggestions to add to this tutorial.
*thanks to all that helped make this tutorial better
Thx a lot for that tutorial, it really helped me out!
