----------------------------------- avakann Thu Jun 04, 2009 12:23 pm ingnoring the IF statement but I want the if statement to work ----------------------------------- help please What is the problem you are having? the progeramme doesn't do what I want it to do Describe what you have tried to solve this problem I've changed the variable, I even copied a part of the programme that worked the way I want it to work and even that didn't help setscreen ("graphics:1050;650") colorback (6) % yellow cls var picID :int := Pic.FileNew ("X.bmp") var picy :int := Pic.FileNew ("Y.bmp") var name1,name, age,twentyfirst, theoryX, theoryY : string var relate1, colour1,independent1 : char put "what is your name?" %asks the first question get name1 put "what is my name?" get name if name = "Jason" or name = "jason" then put "right, next question." else put "wrong the answer is Jason or jason ", name1 end if put "what is my age?" get age if age = "18" then put "right next question" else put "wrong I am 18 ", name1 end if put "what was my score for 21st century manager?" get twentyfirst if twentyfirst= "7" then put "right, next question" else put "wrong my score was 7 ", name1 end if put "this relates to me, how?" put "A: it is just a score, B: my name is jason, C: my biggest problem is my self confidence, D: the evil my heart tells me so" get relate1 if relate1 = "C" or relate1 = "c" then put "right" elsif relate1 = "A" or relate1 = "a" or relate1 = "B" or relate1 = "b" or relate1 = "D" or relate1 = "d" then put "wrong it was C, or c ", name1 else put "not even an answer" end if put "what was my score in theory X in theory X and Y quiz?" get theoryX if theoryX = "5" then put "right" else put "WRONG IT WAS 5 ", name1 end if put "what was my score in theory Y in theory X and Y quiz?" get theoryY if theoryY = "6" then put "right" else put "that is wrong it was 6 ", name1 end if Pic.Draw (picID, maxx div 2, maxy div 2,0) Pic.Free (picID) Pic.Draw (picy, maxx div 2 + 17, maxy div 2,0) put "what is the colour in the background for?" put "A: I found the colour looks cool, B: it is the closest to gold, and gold was the colour that was the closest to me, c:it was just the closest to gold, D:answer not available" get colour1 if colour1 = "b" or colour1 = "B" then put "right" elsif colour1 = "A" or colour1 = "a" or colour1 = "C" or colour1 ="c" or colour1 = "D" or colour1 = "d" then put "wrong the answer was either B or b", name1 else put "not even an answer" end if put "I am an independent,sensing,thinking,judging person, this is expressed by the fact in this project How?" put "A: the fact that this project is an original idea that gets people thinking B: I judged that this would be fun, and I was right, C: it was a long haul but my thinking got through it all, D: if you want the final answer put down d)" get independent1 if independent1= "D" or independent1= "d" then put "Curiosity killed the cat" delay (200) put "WRONG ANSWER ", name1 elsif independent1= "A" or independent1= "a" or independent1= "B" or independent1= "b" or independent1= "C" or independent1= "c" then put "that is correct ", name1 else put "not even an answer" end if Please specify what version of Turing you are using the version is 4.0.5 ----------------------------------- Tony Thu Jun 04, 2009 1:01 pm Re: ingnoring the IF statement but I want the if statement to work ----------------------------------- the progeramme doesn't do what I want it to do It doesn't have to. It does do exactly what you've told it to do though. Sometimes there's discrepancy though. What is it that you want it to do? And how is that different from what you've told it to do? ----------------------------------- avakann Fri Jun 05, 2009 11:47 am Re: ingnoring the IF statement but I want the if statement to work ----------------------------------- Ok it doesn't do what I thought that I told it to do for some reason it is ignoring the if statement and and I don't think that I told the programme to do that ----------------------------------- jbking Fri Jun 05, 2009 1:20 pm Re: ingnoring the IF statement but I want the if statement to work ----------------------------------- There are 8 "if" statements in the code. Which one(s) are you meaning? What kinds of things have you done to try to isolate the problem? What is the expected and actual results you get and with what input? These are just a few basic questions that would help some of us as well as show good faith that you do try to figure out your own problems as this is one of the big pillars of programming to my mind: Being able to fix mistakes in your own software. ----------------------------------- Wolf_Destiny Fri Jun 05, 2009 9:52 pm Re: ingnoring the IF statement but I want the if statement to work ----------------------------------- So....it worked perfectly for me, (in)correct answers were dealt with appropriately, indicating success or failure, or invalid input where appropriate. Not really sure what the problem is at all, it didn't skip a single if statement when I ran it. Just for whatever sort of reference it might be worth, I'm running V4.0.3 ~Wolf_Destiny ----------------------------------- avakann Wed Jun 10, 2009 12:00 pm RE:ingnoring the IF statement but I want the if statement to work ----------------------------------- it is ignoring the "if" statement for this line if independent1= "D" or independent1= "d" then put "Curiosity killed the cat" delay (200) put "WRONG ANSWER ", name1 elsif independent1= "A" or independent1= "a" or independent1= "B" or independent1= "b" or independent1= "C" or independent1= "c" then put "that is correct ", name1 else put "not even an answer" end if what am I doing wrong ----------------------------------- Tony Wed Jun 10, 2009 12:07 pm RE:ingnoring the IF statement but I want the if statement to work ----------------------------------- a good debugging technique is to output all the conditional variables, to inspect yourself. It will look something like [code] put "Debug: ", independent1 if independent1= "D" or independent1= "d" then ... [/code] If it seems visually correct, you can further try testing for conditional statements [code] put independent1= "D" [/code]