----------------------------------- hello Thu Apr 24, 2003 4:05 pm How can you have real time? ----------------------------------- :) :( :) :( :( :( how do u have multiple procs working at the same time we are making a space shooter we need real time ship movement while we are shooting and moving we created a movement pattern and shooting but unable to do at same time ----------------------------------- JayLo Thu Apr 24, 2003 4:30 pm ----------------------------------- processes ----------------------------------- Blade Thu Apr 24, 2003 5:39 pm ----------------------------------- or do it in one big loop, and use View.Update at the end ----------------------------------- Tony Thu Apr 24, 2003 6:10 pm ----------------------------------- no processes. Thats bad... use processes only for background music. Just put all your procedures into the same loop and use hasch to bypass getch if no key is pressed. Better yet Keybaord.KeyDown (i think) in v4.x compiler. and just use View.Update will speed graphics up so it doesnt look like something is out of place ----------------------------------- Blade Thu Apr 24, 2003 6:25 pm ----------------------------------- pretty much what i explained... but i assumed he was already using hasch or Input.Keydown ----------------------------------- hello Sat Apr 26, 2003 2:13 pm ----------------------------------- yeah i'm using input.keydown for movement the main problem is that my ship can't move when it fires basically one has to wait until the projectile clears the screen before it can move again i've thought and thought of how to re-arrange the structure but it's stumped me if i can solve this then firing multiple projectiles shouldn't be a problem ....... hopefully ----------------------------------- Tony Sat Apr 26, 2003 2:34 pm ----------------------------------- well your program's structure has to be like this: loop move ship if missiles on screen for i:1..maxmissile move missile(i) end for end if move enemies calculate w/e else you need %at this point everything have moved 1 step according at its individual speed View.Update end loop