Final Fantasy III battle game help

[do_pete]

What's the difference between getch and getchar?

[DIIST]

do_pete wrote:

What's the difference between getch and getchar?

Getch is a procedure which waits until a specific character is pressed. Getchar is function that returns the character that is pressed.

[do_pete]

Thanks, I understand now

[Az]

code:

loop     put ""     put "        " ..     %get user account name     put "Account Name: " ..     get acntName     if acntName = "q" or acntName = "Q" then         exit     end if     put ""     put "            " ..     %get user password     put "Password: " ..     get password     put ""     put ""     exit end loop

ok that is my code so far for login.. but I dont understand where I would put the getch for the * for the password. i'm not really sure how I code the loop in there

[do_pete]

You need 2 seperate loops; one for the password and one for the account. You'll also need to place the put "Password: " .. and put "Account Name: " .. outside of the loops. The getch and put "*" .. goes inside each loop

[Az]

code:

put "Password: " .. loop     %get user password     var ctr : int := 0     var ch : string (1)     ctr += 1     exit when ctr = 10     getch (ch)     put "*".. end loop

ok thats what i have for the password... but it still isnt working properly.
whenit asks for a password, the stuff you type in shows up as * but for keys like backspace, it just adds a * insted of backspacing, and the enter key add a * aswell insted of exiting the loop when pressed.

(also i would like to know how to get the ESC key to exit the whole program when the account is being entered or the password)

[Cervantes]

Az wrote:

whenit asks for a password, the stuff you type in shows up as * but for keys like backspace, it just adds a * insted of backspacing, and the enter key add a * aswell insted of exiting the loop when pressed.

Cervantes wrote:

Exit the loop if the enter key is pressed (if you getched chr (10) or something like that.)

code:

exit when input_char = chr (10)

code:

var str := "" var ch : string (1) loop     ch := getchar     exit when ch = KEY_ENTER     if ch = KEY_BACKSPACE & length (str) > 0 then         str := str (1 .. * -1)     elsif index ("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzQWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM.,;:'\"?()&%$#@!", ch) not= 0 then         str += ch     end if     locate (1, 1)     put str end loop

[Az]

ok this is really bugging me

code:

put "Password: " .. %get user password loop      getch (ch)      exit when ch = KEY_ENTER %exit when enter key is pressed      if ch = KEY_BACKSPACE and length (password) > 0 then         password := password (1 .. * -1)      elsif index("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzQWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM.,;:'\"?()&%$#@!", ch) not= 0 then         password += ch         put "*"      end if end loop

that code is for the password in my login, it all works EXCEPT that when I type in the password and press backspace, the password changes but the "*" still remains on the screen.

for example: let's say the password is "hello". when i type in the password "*****" (5) is displayed on the screen but if i press backspace, the password string changes to "hell" but the "*****" (5) is still on the screen rather than "****" (4). so the password changes but the "*" does not.

how do i fix this?

[chrispminis]

Not too hard, in your if ch = KEY_BACKSPACE just add afterwards a
put "\B" .. This backspaces and is one of the formatting tools often forgotten Well here's the changes in your code. GL with the rest of the program.

code:

%get user password loop      getch (ch)      exit when ch = KEY_ENTER %exit when enter key is pressed      if ch = KEY_BACKSPACE and length (password) > 0 then         password := password (1 .. * -1)         put "\B" ..      elsif index("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzQWERTYUIOPASDFGHJKLZXCVBNM.,;:'\"?()&%$#@!", ch) not= 0 then         password += ch         put "*" ..      end if end loop

[Az]

chrispminis wrote:

Not too hard, in your if ch = KEY_BACKSPACE just add afterwards a
put "\B" .. This backspaces and is one of the formatting tools often forgotten Well here's the changes in your code. GL with the rest of the program.

thanks! i was stuggling with that for awhile .

anyway, I seemm to be done the login programming. but currently its just a dull white screen with boring text. How would i change the text size/colour/font and also make the background a different colour?.. I am trying to figure that out now but alittle lost so i thought i would post this. any help would be great, thanks

[chrispminis]

Quote:

but currently its just a dull white screen with boring text. How would i change the text size/colour/font and also make the background a different colour?..

First of all, to change background colour use colourback.
The format is colourback (colourofchoice). Also works with American "color".
ex.

code:

colourback (12) cls

outputs a red background.

Then to change the colour of normal size text use colour (or color).
colour (colourofchoice)
ex.

code:

colour (2) put "This outputs text in Green"

But I think you want the Font commands. This is easy enough to understand. You can get the idea from this source code found in the Turing Help Files, on Font.Draw

code:

var font1, font2, font3, font4 : int         font1 := Font.New ("serif:12")         assert font1 > 0         font2 := Font.New ("sans serif:18:bold")         assert font2 > 0         font3 := Font.New ("mono:9")         assert font3 > 0         font4 := Font.New ("Palatino:24:bold,italic")         assert font4 > 0         Font.Draw ("This is in a serif font", 50, 30, font1, red)         Font.Draw ("This is in a sans serif font", 50, 80, font2, brightblue)         Font.Draw ("This is in a mono font", 50, 130, font3, colorfg)         Font.Draw ("This is in Palatino (if available)", 50, 180, font4, green)         Font.Free (font1)         Font.Free (font2)         Font.Free (font3)         Font.Free (font4)

For more detailed information read the Turing Help File on Font.Draw.

Don't forget the locate command if you haven't already learned about them. It locates normal text to a certain row and column. Read about that in the Turing Help File as well. In fact, you can find most of what you need to know in the Turing Help Files, and if it isn't there then check the Tutorials here at compsci.

Also for more professional looking programs, look into buttons.

[Cervantes]

Az wrote:

for example: let's say the password is "hello". when i type in the password "*****" (5) is displayed on the screen but if i press backspace, the password string changes to "hell" but the "*****" (5) is still on the screen rather than "****" (4). so the password changes but the "*" does not.

how do i fix this?

You've got one solution, but let's examine an alternative, just because knowledge is good.

code:

var str := "hello" put repeat ("*", length (str))

[Albrecd]

Quote:

First of all, to change background colour use colourback.

colourback will not work if you are using graphics too, in that case you just Draw.FillBox (0, 0, maxx, maxy, whatevercolour)

[do_pete]

What are you talking about colourback works

[Az]

ok I seem to be done the login of the game, so next I guess I would like to start the battle. So with that in mind, I want to open a new window and imput some GUI or something? lol not really sure what I do but i want it to look something like this...



if you dont know, that is a battle in final fantasy, and i would like my game to turn out with the same concept. I am not sure how i would draw the background, the menu or any of that I have some sort of idea but i would probably struggle for days trying to figure it out I'm thinking for the boxes... just do a Draw.Box or Draw.FillBox, but the background and putting the characters/enemies in, not so sure about that.