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Jyoshua

Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:19 pm


Turing ALT-Commands or Special Characters

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Real basic question...

I am currently working on MUD like game
for my Computer Science class... Also I
love RPGs so I actually care enough to go
all out...

I think I was told how to but I forget and I
don't want to waste my 3-day weekend so
how is it you can use special characters or
ALT-Commands in a put statement?

i.e.
I want to do:

put "█"

but if I try to do the ALT-Command or even
copy and paste it comes out like this... ??

put "?"


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Euphoracle

Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:29 pm


RE:Turing ALT-Commands or Special Characters

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I don't believe Turing supports extended ascii.  I think you might have to do it using the Draw. procedures, unless someone else knows a way to get it to work.


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Jyoshua

Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:33 pm


Re: Turing ALT-Commands or Special Characters

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Perhaps I could substitute
the current font with a
manually made one...
Still anything else easier
would be appreciated ...

 :D  Please help lmao


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Dan

Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:48 pm


RE:Turing ALT-Commands or Special Characters

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1st of all why are you trying to output an "ALT-Command"? 

If it is that you want some charcater that is not on the keyboard like ?,  ? or ? (or any other extended ASCII char) you should be using the chr command with the ascii code.

For example if you want ? you would do:

put chr(135)

For a list of ascii codes see http://www.ascii-code.com/


Unfrontly tho, thess chars are not the same as you will get with the ALT-some numbers in windows like ╝ or ╗ and as far as i know turing does not support thoes so you will either get an error or a ? if you try to put them in ""s


Edit: It seems compsci.ca does not support the extended ASCII chars i was using in the example, however turing does support them and you should be able to use any of the chars on the ascii-code.com site in turing.


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[Gandalf]

Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:50 pm


RE:Turing ALT-Commands or Special Characters

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Characters are a tricky thing, so I'm not sure what exactly you mean to display.  However, from what I can tell, you're trying to accomplish such:
setscreen("msdos")
put chr(219)


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Jyoshua

Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:51 pm


Re: Turing ALT-Commands or Special Characters

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Dude that's what I was trying to remember  :D 
Thank you so much!!


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[Gandalf]

Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:52 pm


Re: Turing ALT-Commands or Special Characters

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No problem!  Welcome to CompSci.ca.  8-)