Working on my game... fairly new to Turing... music help >

[Grogrog]

Well, I am a grade 10 student in computer science this year, and I have found it very fun so far. I am way ahead of most of my class, there are two others who are very good too.

Right now I am working on a platformer - arena two player battle game. It's I guess sorta like that old Mario vs. game where you had to get 5 coins before the other player did.

Anyways, right now I am working on my title screen and it's going pretty well. I have the other part of the code in a seperate file and I am gonna merge them later.

Anyways, I don't know how to get the music to play. I don't know how to select the directory, or where the music should be. It's a midi file I want to put into my title screen. And for those who are interested here is my title screen so far:

code:

setscreen ("offscreenonly") colorback (black) color (brightblue) %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %Variables                             % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% var pos : int := 214 var cursor : array char of boolean var font : int := Font.New ("Comic Sans MS:20:Bold") var font2 : int := Font.New ("Tahoma:11") %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %End Variables                         % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %Procedures                            % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %Draw procedure draw     delay (50)     Draw.Box (10, 10, maxx - 10, maxy - 10, white)     Draw.Box (9, 9, maxx - 9, maxy - 9, white)     Draw.Box (8, 8, maxx - 8, maxy - 8, white)     Draw.Box (7, 7, maxx - 7, maxy - 7, white)     Draw.Box (1, 1, maxx - 2, maxy - 1, white)     Draw.Oval (maxx div 2 + 60, pos, 4, 4, white)     Draw.FillOval (maxx div 2 + 60, pos, 1, 1, brightcyan)     Draw.Oval (maxx div 2 - 60, pos, 4, 4, white)     Draw.FillOval (maxx div 2 - 60, pos, 1, 1, brightcyan)     Draw.Line (maxx div 2 - 40, pos - 6, maxx div 2 + 40, pos - 6, white)     Draw.Line (maxx div 2 - 40, pos + 8, maxx div 2 + 40, pos + 8, white)     View.Update end draw %End Draw %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% %End Procedures                        % %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% loop     delay (40)     cls     Draw.Text ("Head-to-Head", (maxx div 2) - 95, maxy div 2 + 55, font, brightcyan)     Draw.Text ("Battle V0.1", (maxx div 2) - 92, maxy div 2 + 40, font2, grey)     locate (maxrow div 2, maxcol div 2 - 4)     color (brightblue)     put "Two Player"     locate (maxrow div 2 + 1, maxcol div 2 - 4)     put "Practice"     locate (maxrow div 2 + 2, maxcol div 2 - 4)     put "Options"     locate (maxrow div 2 + 3, maxcol div 2 - 4)     put "High Score"     %Cursor Colour     if pos = 214 then     color (brightcyan)     locate (maxrow div 2, maxcol div 2 - 4)     put "Two Player"        elsif pos = 214-16 then     color (brightcyan)     locate (maxrow div 2 +1, maxcol div 2 - 4)     put "Practice"     elsif pos =214-32 then     color (brightcyan)     locate (maxrow div 2 +2, maxcol div 2 - 4)     put "Options"     else     color (brightcyan)     locate (maxrow div 2 +3, maxcol div 2 - 4)     put "High Score"     end if     Draw.Box ((maxx div 2) - 70, (maxy div 2) - 50, (maxx div 2) + 70, (maxy div 2) + 30, white)     Draw.Box ((maxx div 2) - 71, (maxy div 2) - 51, (maxx div 2) + 71, (maxy div 2) + 31, white)     draw        Input.KeyDown (cursor)     if cursor (KEY_UP_ARROW) then         if pos = 214 then             pos := 166         else             pos := pos + 16         end if     else     end if     if cursor (KEY_DOWN_ARROW) then         if pos = 166 then             pos := 214         else             pos := pos - 16         end if     else     end if     if cursor (KEY_ENTER) then         if pos = 214 then         elsif pos = 214 - 16 then         elsif pos = 214 - 32 then         elsif pos = 214 - 48 then         else         end if     else     end if end loop

I might be biting off more then I can chew but I plan on making this program through out the entire year until it is completely perfected. Please don't laugh if anything seems weird, or different, considering I made this in a day, and learned some new things while doing it.

[Delos]

Music.PlayFile ()

Press F10. It's the API, you'll enjoy it. Good luck.

[Grogrog]

Uh. That doesn't do anything for me. I need real help. And I know about the help file. Like I've said I've tried stuff.

Edit: Awsome.

I sorta figured out how to get it to work. Well, I always knew how... but I just don't know how to point the directory to where the music file is.
And how would I make it so that if somebody downloaded my game they could hear the music...

Right now it looks like this: (I edited the example file in Turing help)

code:

process DoMusic     loop         Music.PlayFile ("%oot/support/help/Examples/Data Files/character_setup.mid")     end loop     end DoMusic     fork DoMusic

[Mr. Glib]

Try keeping your source codes and music files in the same directory.

[Delos]

Also, if you're running 4.0.5 then look up the following commands:

Music.PlayFileLoop()
Music.PlayFileReturn()
Music.PlayFileStop()