Need Help

[ImDaMan]

Hey everyone, i started programming about a month ago so i'm pretty noobie. I'm currently programming a game right now and I want get Turing to play music while I play the game, how do I do that.
oh yeah, one more thing, my plane keeps flickering even when I use View.Update, anyone got any ideas?
As I have said before, i'm pretty noobie, so here are my codes, I bet there are simple ways to do some of these codes.

code:

Music.PlayFile ("c:/Cherub rock.wav") View.Set ("graphics,offscreenonly,nocurser") var a, b, c, d, e, f : int var x, y : int x := 100 y := 100 var chars : array char of boolean var ship : int := Pic.FileNew ("c:/game resources/ship.bmp") var fire : int := Pic.FileNew ("c:/game resources/fire.bmp") var planet1 : int := Pic.FileNew ("c:/game resources/planet1.bmp") var planet2 : int := Pic.FileNew ("c:/game resources/planet2.bmp") colourback (7) cls randomize a := Rand.Int (300, 400) b := Rand.Int (200, 400) c := Rand.Int (200, 300) d := Rand.Int (0, 200) loop     View.Update     Pic.Draw (planet1, a, b, 0)     View.Update     Pic.Draw (planet2, c, d, 0)     Input.KeyDown (chars)     if chars (KEY_UP_ARROW) then         y := y + 20     end if     if chars (KEY_DOWN_ARROW) then         y := y - 20     end if     if chars (KEY_LEFT_ARROW) then         x := x - 20     end if     if chars (KEY_RIGHT_ARROW) then         x := x + 20     end if     View.Update     Pic.Draw (ship, x, y, 0)     delay (70)     cls     Input.KeyDown (chars)     if chars (KEY_ENTER) then         var m, n : int         m := x         n := y         View.Update         Pic.Draw (ship, x, y, 0)         for decreasing counter : 8 .. 1             Pic.Draw (ship, x, y, 0)             View.Update             Pic.Draw (fire, m + 100, n + 34, 0)             delay (20)             cls             View.Update             Pic.Draw (fire, m + 100, n - 5, 0)             delay (20)             cls             View.Update             Pic.Draw (ship, x, y, 0)             m := m + 100             View.Update             Pic.Draw (planet1, a, b, 0)             View.Update             Pic.Draw (planet2, c, d, 0)         end for         View.Update         Pic.Draw (planet1, a, b, 0)         View.Update         Pic.Draw (planet2, c, d, 0)         Music.PlayFile ("c:/missile5.wav")         View.Update         Pic.Draw (ship, x, y, 0)         if m = a or c = m and n = b or n = d then             locate (10, 50)             put "you got em..."             Music.PlayFile ("c:/explosion2.wav")         end if     end if end loop

[Clayton]

ok, first of all, get rid of the randomize in there, you dont need it, it was used way back when in like 3.x versions of Turing (even before that i believe actually) and is no longer used. next, you only need one View.Update in there, the reason it is flashing is because you draw your picture, then clear the screen, then View.Update, so you see a clear screen for a second then you get the picture check out my View.Set and View.Update tutorial in the Turing Walkthrough

to get the music to play while everything else is happening use the Music.PlayFileReturn (filename:string) procedure (well process really...) and you should be fine

[Silent Avenger]

Well first off you shouldn't post threads with subjects of "need help". Next time put in something you need help with in the subject so in your case you might put "need help with playing music and flickering". I've also found a tutorial on the haltsoft website for you, the link is below.
http://www.holtsoft.com/turing/tech/music.html

[ImDaMan]

Thanks

btw: I know this probably sounds stupid but how do you actual use that command? (filename:string)??

[ImDaMan]

nvm, I found out how....

[Silent Avenger]

Well it's a good thing that you figured out how to do it yourself because that's how you really learn, by figuring things out by yourself and not having people telling you what to do.

[Cervantes]

"Music.PlayFileReturn (filename:string)" means that the Music.PlayFileReturn procedure takes one parameter and that parameter is a string. It is referred to as "filename" in the definition of the procedure.

You'll start to use this syntax when you start defining your own subroutines.