Fillbox Blinking When Drawn

[Flea]

I have a small problem. I'm trying to do movement with getch, and a sort of wall detector thing i thought of myself. I have a continuous procedure where everything happens and it clears the screen once per cycle. It all works, except when I do cls the walls disappear, of course.

I tried having the walls be drawn every cycle just after the screen is cleared, but then they 'blink'. I dont suppose that the way I'm doing it is the best way, but then again maybe it is. =( I sure hope not.

If there's anyway to clear part of the screen, or like, everything except an area, or anything even to get rid of that annoying blink, I'd be grateful.

p.s. is there any way to get rid of the default delay when you hold a key?

[Andy]

read up on View.Update and offscreenonly in the tutorial section

[Flea]

oh no.

my school uses v4.0.1 and i dont think view.update is supported. My teacher's not about to update the versions either.

[SuperGenius]

try asking the it department about it, it shouldnt be too hard for them if the turing program is on a server like it should be.

[Andy]

4.01 works fine wit View.Update

[apomb]

sorry, Dodge, it doesnt, just to tell you, at my school, we used to have 4.04 and it still didnt work, so, i really doubt it would work on a lower version.

and to answer your post scriptum, flea, no there is not any way to get rid of the default delay

[Genesis]

What? I can guarantee you it works with version 4.0.4, I have it installed right here. And I'm almost positive it works with version 4.0.1 too.

I'm pretty sure View.Update works with every version of Turing since 4.0.0 came out.

Are you sure your using the proper syntax?

[Paul]

it does work with 4.0.x , besure u have setscreen ("offscreenonly")

and I usually view.update before cls.

[Andy]

pauls rite.. as long its not 4.00 it should work for all other version 4s

[apomb]

Well then, i guess we had an older version than i thought, sorry guys! My school IT Dept. Sucks, I was the one who first installed Turing 4.05 on them, (when it was legal), now all of the comps have it

[Flea]

Yes!

I talked to my teacher and now we've got v4.0.4c i think it is. View.Update turns black when typed =)

thx all!

[gigaman]

can anyone tell me where to get an update for my v. 4.0.0?

[Dan]

gigaman wrote:

can anyone tell me where to get an update for my v. 4.0.0?

Form the holth soft web site if it is leagal verson and they still suport it. Other wise you whould have to ask your school. Tho i whould be a good idea b/c 4.0.0 is the worst verson of turing every made that i know of.