I'm a Failure at Case Statements

[Fail@ICS]

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:(

[Insectoid]

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

My syntax is off but you get the idea.

[Fail@ICS]

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

[Tony]

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?

[Kharybdis]

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).

Turing:

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.

[Insectoid]

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

[supaphreek]

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