Storing images in an array?

[mikey90]

Hello...I need some help. I'm creating a guessing game which display images and someone has to guess what the images is from...I will provide multiply choice answers. Could someone tell me how to store images in an array?

[DemonZ]

Sure its not a problem at all, all you gotta do is create a variable as an array like so:

code:

var pictures : array 1 .. 10 of int

After that there are a couple of options here, you can use a for loop to store all of the same images, or you can manually insert the pictures one by one in the different array slots like so:

code:

pictures (1) := Pic.FileNew ("picture.bmp", 0, 0, picCopy) pictures (2) := Pic.FileNew ("picture2.bmp", 0, 0, picCopy) ........... % and so forth

But there is another way to do this, name all of your pictures under one name for example pics, then give each of them a number when you name them ex "pics 1, pics 2, pics 3, ...., and so forth" then you can code your program to sotre each individual picture like this:

code:

var pictures : array 1 .. 10 of int for i : 1 .. 10 pictures (i) := Pic.FileNew ("pics " + instr (i) + ".bmp" end for

This way, you are storing all the images that you want in the array using a for loop, this takes less time and is easier to work with

If you have any questions just ask ill help explain to you.

[DemonZ]

Here is a short program I made for you that will solve your problems of storing images

code:

var pictures : array 1 .. 10 of int for i : 1 .. 10 pictures (i) := Pic.FileNew ("pics " + instr (i) + ".bmp") end for

[mikey90]

Alright .... just one more question. If I am giving the user a multiple choice question and I only want to display one image until the user gets it right what should I do? To give the user 3 options.

[mikey90]

And thanks for helping me out

[DemonZ]

No problem, as for the displaying image one by one, If you have controls in your game, heres what you do: First you display the question and the choices, plus the picture, then after youll have either "get answer" that will wait until the user has typed in his letter for which answer he like to choose, you might wanna have all of your questions stored in an array and the multiple choice answers in an array as well, after that, youll have an if statement that will check if the answer is right, if it is then youll display the next picture, if it isnt, its up to you what you wanna do, have game over or repeat the question. Here a little code that might help you solve your problem:

code:

for i: 1 .. 10 Pic.Draw (pictures (i), 0, 0, picCopy) % displaying picture question (i) % displaying question % displaying multiple choices choice1 (i) choice2 (i) choice3 (i) choice4 (i) % Displaying question, picture, and answers get UserAnswer if UserAnswer = choice1 (i) then put "GOOD JOB" end if

Hope this helps

[mikey90]

Could you outline how I can combine storing the pictures in the array and then displaying them with multiple choice answers?

[DemonZ]

here some code:

code:

var pictures : array 1 .. 10 of int var question : array 1 .. 10 of string var choice1 : array 1 .. 10 of int var choice2 : array 1 .. 10 of int var choice3 : array 1 .. 10 of int var choice4 : array 1 .. 10 of int var answer : int for i : 1 .. 10 pictures (i):= Pic.FileNew ("pics " + instr (i) + ".bmp" end for for i : 1 .. 10 Pic.Draw (pictures (i), 0, 0, picCopy) put question (i) put choice1 (i), choice2 (i), choice3 (i), choice4 (i) get answer % Then you do your if statement to check if answer is right end for

[Clayton]

DemonZ, you basically just did his project for him...

While we're at it:

Turing:

var pictures : array 1 .. 10 of int var question : array 1 .. 10 of string var choice1 : array 1 .. 10 of int var choice2 : array 1 .. 10 of int var choice3 : array 1 .. 10 of int var choice4 : array 1 .. 10 of int

Would be much better off as a record:

Turing:

var questions : array 1 .. 10 of     record         picture : int         question : string         answer : string         choice : array 1 .. 4 of string     end record

Check out the records and types tutorial in the Turing Walkthrough to figure out how that works

[mikey90]

Im gonna try and get it to work...thanks for helping me.

[mikey90]

Can I use jpeg and how do I put choices?

[DemonZ]

your right freakman, I think i helped a bit too much, sorry but your gonna have to do the rest for yourself, just go into turing documentation to look up some things on jpgs or go onto the tutorials and learn something there, I helped u enough, sorry no more help, but your welcome

[zedx_26]

I Got a question what would intstr(i) do in uploading picture command

[CodeMonkey2000]

intstr converts an integer value into a string value.