DDR -- help

[ladum]

What is it you are trying to achieve?
a ddr game


What is the problem you are having?
having the arrows randomly come up, with multiple arrows on the screen at one... instead of just one at a time

Describe what you have tried to solve this problem
make an array, start the arrows at different points... an

Post any relevant code (You may choose to attach the file instead of posting the code if it is too long)
this just has the arrow coming up the screen one at a time

Turing:

loop for y:1..6 arrows(y):=Rand.Int(-70,-50)     %Choose a random arrow     arrow := Rand.Int (1, 4)     %up arrow     if arrow = 1 then         Sprite.Show (sup)         %Move the sprite up         for i :arrows(y).. maxy + 50 by 3             %Detects if person hits the arrow key             Input.KeyDown (chars)             if i > 855 and response not= 1 then                 Sprite.Hide (perfect)                 Sprite.Show (boo)             elsif chars (KEY_UP_ARROW) and i > 825 and i < 850 then                 Sprite.Hide (sup)                 Sprite.Show (perfect)                 response := 1             end if             Sprite.SetPosition (sup, 400, i, true)             delay (1)             View.Update         end for         %down arrow     elsif arrow = 2 then         downm := Pic.FileNew ("downarrow .bmp")         downm := Pic.Scale (downm, 100, 100)         sdown := Sprite.New (downm)         Sprite.Show (sdown)         for i : arrows(y) .. maxy + 50 by 3             Input.KeyDown (chars)             if i > 855 and response not= 1 then                 Sprite.Hide (perfect)                 Sprite.Show (boo)             elsif chars (KEY_DOWN_ARROW) and i > 825 and i < 850 then                 Sprite.Hide (sdown)                 Sprite.Show (perfect)                 response := 1             end if             Sprite.SetPosition (sdown, 275, i, true)             delay (1)             View.Update         end for         %left arrow     elsif arrow = 3 then         Sprite.Show (sleft)         for i : arrows(y) .. maxy + 50 by 3             Input.KeyDown (chars)             if i > 855 and response not= 1 then                 Sprite.Hide (perfect)                 Sprite.Show (boo)             elsif chars (KEY_LEFT_ARROW) and i > 825 and i < 850 then                 Sprite.Hide (sleft)                 Sprite.Show (perfect)                 response := 1             end if             Sprite.SetPosition (sleft, 150, i, true)             delay (1)             View.Update         end for         %right arrrow     elsif arrow = 4 then         rightm := Pic.FileNew ("right arrow.bmp")         rightm := Pic.Scale (rightm, 100, 100)         sright := Sprite.New (rightm)               Sprite.Show (sright)         for i : arrows(y) .. maxy + 50 by 3             Input.KeyDown (chars)             if i > 855 and response not= 1 then                 Sprite.Hide (perfect)                 Sprite.Show (boo)             elsif chars (KEY_RIGHT_ARROW) and i > 800 and i < 830 then                 Sprite.Hide (sright)                 Sprite.Show (perfect)                 response := 1             end if             Sprite.SetPosition (sright, 525, i, true)             delay (1)             View.Update         end for     end if     response := 0     Sprite.Hide (perfect)     Sprite.Hide (boo)     end for end loop

Please specify what version of Turing you are using
4.1 i think

[Dusk Eagle]

Do you understand Object-Oriented Programming? If you do, make an arrow class, and every time a new arrow is to appear, make a new instance of this class and add that instance to an array of arrows to be moved-up and drawn.

If you don't understand OOP, then the above won't work. In may be harder to do, but I'm sure there are ways to do it. I'll have to leave that for someone else here to solve.

[ladum]

thanks for the idea... too bad i didn't know what object orienting programing was... oh well.. thanks anyways

[Dusk Eagle]

Well, if you're willing to work hard, you could follow my link above and learn about it (or you could Google it).