Is it possible to have a procedure running in the background of a program?

[Tasty Pastry]

I'm making a game in Turing, and I've made a menu option for the player to bring up at any point during their play-through of the game. However I can't seem to figure out how to have the program check for the input to bring the menu up while still going through other parts of the code. It only seems like it's going through it step-by-step, and for the life of me I cannot find out how to fix this. Any suggestions?

Turing:

% Menu check proc MenuCheck loop     Input.KeyDown (chars)     if chars ('z') then     delay (150)         loop             Input.KeyDown (chars)             if chars (KEY_DOWN_ARROW) then                 MenuPick := MenuPick + 0.025             else                 if chars (KEY_UP_ARROW) then                     MenuPick := MenuPick - 0.025                 end if             end if             if MenuPick > 5 then                 MenuPick := 1             end if             if MenuPick < 1 then                 MenuPick := 4.5             end if             if MenuPick >= 1 and MenuPick < 2 then                 Pic.Draw (MenuBox1, 2, 280, picMerge)                 View.Update             end if             if MenuPick >= 2 and MenuPick < 3 then                 Pic.Draw (MenuBox2, 2, 280, picMerge)                 View.Update             end if             if MenuPick >= 3 and MenuPick < 4 then                 Pic.Draw (MenuBox3, 2, 280, picMerge)                 View.Update             end if             if MenuPick >= 4 and MenuPick < 5 then                 Pic.Draw (MenuBox4, 2, 280, picMerge)                 View.Update             end if             if chars (KEY_ENTER) then             %do stuff             end if             if chars ('z') then             exit             end if         end loop         delay (150)         Pic.Draw (MenuBlank, 2, 280, 0)         View.Update         exit     end if end loop end MenuCheck % Main part of the program MenuCheck Pic.Draw (TextBox, 160, 10, 0) View.Update TypewriterPrint("Hello Daanish! Is this font too big") TypewriterPrint2 ("or too small?")

Is there such thing as a "do this and this together" command, and if there is, what is it and how do I use it?

[Insectoid]

The good news is, there is such a command! The bad news is, all it will give you are unexplainable bugs so it's a bad idea to use it.

Your best option I think is to create a procedure that handles only that button and include it in all parts of your code that requires that button.

[Tasty Pastry]

Insectoid @ Wed Jun 07, 2017 4:09 pm wrote:

The good news is, there is such a command! The bad news is, all it will give you are unexplainable bugs so it's a bad idea to use it.

Your best option I think is to create a procedure that handles only that button and include it in all parts of your code that requires that button.

Yeah, but... I need that button to run all the time. Throughout the whole entire game.

Also, I've come across another problem. I thought I could use process, but I needed to figure out a way to hide the image without cls'ing the whole screen, so I used sprites. I also need View.Update on some parts, but for some reason the screen freezes just after I call the menu process.

Heres the process:

Turing:

process MenuCheck     loop            Input.KeyDown (chars)         if chars ('z') then             delay (150)             loop                 Input.KeyDown (chars)                 if chars (KEY_DOWN_ARROW) then                     MenuPick := MenuPick + 0.0005                 else                     if chars (KEY_UP_ARROW) then                         MenuPick := MenuPick - 0.0005                     end if                 end if                 if MenuPick > 5 then                     MenuPick := 1                 end if                 if MenuPick < 1 then                     MenuPick := 4.5                 end if                 if MenuPick >= 1 and MenuPick < 2 then                 View.Set ("nooffscreenony")                     Sprite.Hide (MenuBoxSprite4)                     Sprite.Hide (MenuBoxSprite3)                     Sprite.Hide (MenuBoxSprite2)                     Sprite.Show (MenuBoxSprite1)                 View.Set ("offscreenonly")                 end if                 if MenuPick >= 2 and MenuPick < 3 then                 View.Set ("nooffscreenony")                     Sprite.Hide (MenuBoxSprite4)                     Sprite.Hide (MenuBoxSprite3)                     Sprite.Hide (MenuBoxSprite1)                     Sprite.Show (MenuBoxSprite2)                 View.Set ("offscreenonly")                 end if                 if MenuPick >= 3 and MenuPick < 4 then                 View.Set ("nooffscreenony")                     Sprite.Hide (MenuBoxSprite4)                     Sprite.Hide (MenuBoxSprite2)                     Sprite.Hide (MenuBoxSprite1)                     Sprite.Show (MenuBoxSprite3)                 View.Set ("offscreenonly")                    end if                 if MenuPick >= 4 and MenuPick < 5 then                 View.Set ("nooffscreenony")                     Sprite.Hide (MenuBoxSprite2)                     Sprite.Hide (MenuBoxSprite3)                     Sprite.Hide (MenuBoxSprite1)                     Sprite.Show (MenuBoxSprite4)                  View.Set ("offscreenonly")                      end if                 if chars (KEY_ENTER) then                     %do stuff                 end if                 if chars ('z') then                     exit                 end if             end loop             delay (150)             View.Set ("nooffscreenony")             Sprite.Hide (MenuBoxSprite4)             Sprite.Hide (MenuBoxSprite3)             Sprite.Hide (MenuBoxSprite1)             Sprite.Hide (MenuBoxSprite2)             View.Set ("offscreenonly")                      end if     end loop end MenuCheck

...And heres the actual code where I call it.

Turing:

loop Input.KeyDown (chars) delay (1000) Font.Draw ("Deceased", 570, 620, font, white) delay (500) Logo exit when chars (KEY_ENTER) end loop View.Set ("offscreenonly") cls % Freezes up right around here View.Update fork MenuCheck Pic.Draw (TextBox, 160, 10, picMerge) View.Update fontPositionChoosex := 278 fontPositionChoosey := 185 TypewriterPrintSlow ("....")

It only continues if I press the 'z' key again, then enter, otherwise it just freezes and stays there.

[Insectoid]

See, this is why you don't use processes. The program will not pause when you hit the z key. The delay in your process will only delay *that process*. The rest of the program will continue without it. This method will not work. The only way to do what you're trying to do is to manually program that button/keypress in everywhere that you need it. There is no alternative. That means you must always be running input.keydown every few milliseconds. You cannot have any long delays. All of your loops must execute quickly. You will probably have to completely restructure all of your logic and code to make this button work. There is no quick fix.

[Tasty Pastry]

Insectoid @ Wed Jun 07, 2017 8:07 pm wrote:

See, this is why you don't use processes. The program will not pause when you hit the z key. The delay in your process will only delay *that process*. The rest of the program will continue without it. This method will not work. The only way to do what you're trying to do is to manually program that button/keypress in everywhere that you need it. There is no alternative. That means you must always be running input.keydown every few milliseconds. You cannot have any long delays. All of your loops must execute quickly. You will probably have to completely restructure all of your logic and code to make this button work. There is no quick fix.

Yeah, I don't need the program to be paused while the Menu is running. The problem is that as soon as the process is called, the program freezes unless I hit z and then z again, then press the enter key.

[Insectoid]

I don't know why it's freezing, and it's not worth my time to find out as long as you are using processes.