Problems regarding Font.Draw

[cyaniede]

What is it you are trying to achieve?
I'm trying to get my racing program working, and it mostly is. I have a bit of trouble caused by the output screen.


What is the problem you are having?
When I use Font.Draw to draw an array of a string variable, it works, but when I try to draw an array of a int variable, it doesn't work. I suspect it's because it's an int, and not a string, but I'm not sure how to fix it.
The variable is needed to keep track of a balance, and is needed to be actively displayed.


Describe what you have tried to solve this problem
Nothing. I have no idea how to solve this problem.


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Turing:

var balance : array 1 .. playernum of int     var font2x : int := 699     var font1y : int := 535         for TheLab : 1 .. playernum             font1y -= 85             Font.Draw (balance (TheLab), font2x, font1y, font1, black)         end for

Please specify what version of Turing you are using
I'm not sure, sorry.

[Tony]

if you read the error message, it should tell you just that -- it's expecting a string. You can check the documentation of exactly what is needed for Font.Draw

The solution should be pretty obvious -- if the text argument is required to be a string, then you should supply a string, not an int.

Luckily 1 and "1" look very similar when printed.

[cyaniede]

But that's the problem though, because I need to output it as that int, but I still need to use it for calculations, and then output it as a new value again later.

Is there some way I could convert an int into a string and back again?

[Tony]

Font.Draw only draws the string and nothing else. So you only need to convert from int -> string, not the other way.

How do you think this could be accomplished?