View.Set

[Scott]

Hello, I am working on a game and have most of the mechanics worked out, jokes its far from. I am taking a break from it and have moved onto a graphical display for it. I want to use ASCII to display my game.

I have two questions which are probably simple but I never dealt with.

First

code:

View.Set ("graphics:800;640") .

I don't want to use pixels to set my screen width I want to go by characters

Second. How do I get Turing to output characters by giving it ASCII values?

Thanks to anyone who helps.

[andrew.]

If you use "put" and "locate" it will work by character columns and rows. You can also change the mode to text with "View.Set ("text")", but I don't recommend it. I am actually not sure about your second question and I don't have Turing right now.

[TheGuardian001]

Ascii values can be outputted to the screen using

Turing:

put chr(Ascii code)

as for setting by rows and columns, you can use

Turing:

setscreen("screen:rows;columns")

screen allows you to use both text and graphics, while still allowing you to set by rows/columns.

[Scott]

Thanks for the help, but I tried that and it doesn't work for the extended ASCII.. Does Turing even support the extended?

[BigBear]

You can see all the values of the keys in the F10 help documentation. What do you mean by extended

[Scott]

Here this is what I am trying to get, look at the extended set of ASCII characters. http://www.asciitable.com/

[TheGuardian001]

Ah, In that case, you will need to use View.Set("msdos"). This changes the characters from 128 on to the extended set, as opposed to the normal one.

[Scott]

Thanks you that's exactly what I needed.