Multiple Loops

[bvbjules13]

What is it you are trying to achieve?
im trying to make an animation run at the same time as i run another figure which is controlled by the up and down arrows

What is the problem you are having?
i have it on loop and will only run one thing at a time and i am told it is bad to use process

Describe what you have tried to solve this problem
i have attemted process and messed up the program, i got flickering and the screen got cleared

this is basically what i am doing, just simplified to circles instead, so far i only have two loops but running one after the other

Turing:

View.Set ("graphics: 600,400, offscreenonly") var x : int := 50 var key : array char of boolean var y : int := 200 var i : int := 200 loop     Input.KeyDown (key)     Draw.Fill (i, y, 0, 0)     Draw.FillOval (i, y, 50, 50, red)     if key (KEY_RIGHT_ARROW) then         if i not= 550 then             i := i + 1         end if     elsif key (KEY_LEFT_ARROW) then         if i not= 50 then             i := i - 1         end if     elsif key (KEY_UP_ARROW) then         if y not= 350 then             y := y + 1         end if     elsif key (KEY_DOWN_ARROW) then         if y not= 50 then             y := y - 1         end if     end if     View.Update end loop loop     x := x + 1     Time.Delay (10)     Draw.Fill (x - 51, 50, 0, 0)     Draw.FillOval (x, 50, 50, 50, 16)     View.UpdateArea (0, 0, maxx, maxy)     if x = 651 then         Draw.Fill (x - 51, 50, 0, 0)         x := 50     end if end loop

Please specify what version of Turing you are using
4.1

[Insectoid]

You need to put everything in the same loop. Move your first oval a single frame, then move your second oval a single frame, then get your input. You don't necessarily have to do it in that order, but it all needs to be in the same loop.

[Panphobia]

think about it, one cannot run while the other is in a loop completely not connected to itself, how can you expect two things to move at the same time if they are in two different loops, only one of those loops can loop at a time