Clearing the brick completely

[Velocity]

What is it you are trying to achieve?
when the ball hits the brick it clears it permanetly


What is the problem you are having?
i made the if statement and all that but when the ball hits the brick it flashes the clear and then redraws it, obvs cause its in a loop, but how do i make it so that it just stays deleted. im looking for an easy method.

Describe what you have tried to solve this problem
i dont exactly know how to go about doing it, i thought the redraw would work then i did it and it just flashes

Turing:

drawfillbox (xb1, yb1, xb2, yb2, 48)                         if ball_x1 >= xb1 and ball_x1 <= xb2 and ball_y1 >= yb1 and ball_y1 <= yb2 then             drawfillbox (xb1, yb1, xb2, yb2, black)         end if

Please specify what version of Turing you are using
4.1.1a

[Velocity]

black is the color of my background thats why the new block will be black, but how would i go about executing this code in a proper way so that it doesnt flash, but just so that it goes away, what basic command or code structure do i need?

[Tony]

instead of drawing a brick and then drawing over it, why not simply not draw the brick in the first place?

[chipanpriest]

I already posted on your earlier thread but it probably works better here. If you have 10 bricks; for example, you could do this:

Turing:

var alive : array 1 .. 10 of boolean for i : 1 .. 10     if alive (i) = true then %if the brick is alive         %drawbrick     end if end for

And when a brick gets hit you could do something like:

Turing:

for i : 1 .. 10     if /* the ball hits a brick */ then         alive (i) := false %brick dies     end if end for

That's all I did for my space invaders. Hope it helps!

[Velocity]

thank you soooo much it helped alot, i got it to work now, thank you all for the great help!