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Fail@ICS

Mon May 24, 2010 11:57 am


I'm a Failure at Case Statements

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Hey guys:D

So I'm a failure at turing and everything so I was hoping for a bit of help. 

I'm supposed to create a slideshow of some sort using turing right. And so I have done a menu page/table of contents page, whatever you wanna call it. I've put an A (then -name of topic), B (then name of topic),C (then name of topic)  and so on. So for instance if my slideshow was on sports, A-could be hockey, B-could be basketball, C- rugby and yeah, you get the point:) 

Now I want it so that whichever alphabet the user types from A,B,C,D etc, the information within is displayed. I think I need like case statements or if statements for it. I have no idea what to do though. So for instance if the user clicks A, the information for hockey is displayed. I have pictures too and I don't know if case statements display the pictures and stuff. I think it only displays text. Please help someone:(


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Insectoid

Mon May 24, 2010 12:19 pm


RE:I\'m a Failure at Case Statements

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You should have a procedure that displays stuff, and have the case statement call the procedure.
 [code]
proc drawStuff
 Pic.Draw ("pic.bmp", x, y, picMerge)
end drawStuff


case input
    label "A" : drawStuff
end case
[/code]

My syntax is off but you get the idea.


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Fail@ICS

Mon May 24, 2010 12:42 pm


Re: I'm a Failure at Case Statements

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Dude you're awesome. Thanks a lot for the effort:) But for some reason I still don't get it:(


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Tony

Mon May 24, 2010 12:45 pm


RE:I\'m a Failure at Case Statements

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Sure, no problem. What part do you still have trouble with? Can you get an example, such as the one Insectoid is talking about, to work and understand what is going on?


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Kharybdis

Tue May 25, 2010 7:14 am


Re: I'm a Failure at Case Statements

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Ok, if you want to do loads of stuff in one option of a case statement, you'll need to create a procedure to contain all that stuff within one of those options.

Say that you choose hockey (represented by A in the case statement).


proc hockeyProcedure
    /*display all the stuff here*/
end proc

case input
    label "A" : hockeyProcedure
end case



You can have pictures or anything you want inside that procedure that you call when using the case.


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Insectoid

Tue May 25, 2010 5:36 pm


RE:I\'m a Failure at Case Statements

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I can't help but wonder if you even read any posts other than the first...You damn near copied my code snippet exactly.


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supaphreek

Wed Jun 02, 2010 8:29 am


RE:I\'m a Failure at Case Statements

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Well, im not the best at turing but what you could do is draw an A using the drawfont command, then use

Mouse.Where (x,y,button)
if x > (the the left coordinate of the A) and x < (the right coordinate of A) and y > the bottom coordinate of a) and y < (the top coordinate of A) and button = 1 then

put "Hockey...."
end if

As for the when theyre typing it. You could just use getchar

sooo itd be like this

var a : char

a := getchar

if a = "a" or a = "A" then
put "hockey"
end if


BTW, you have to loop BOTH of these