Loading Bar for Millionaire Game

[edkedned]

I need help making a loading box with turing. I am making a turing version of who wants to be a millionaire and I would appreciate any ideas for this schoool project....... THNKS..

Mod edit: Fixed title.

[[Gandalf]]

Please read the stickies, use descriptive topic names rather than titles such as "Help Naoo!!1"

Do you know how to use Draw.Box() and loops? If so, you can easily make a loading bar by increasing the x coordinates of the bar at each iteration.

That is, assuming the loading bar is part of your assignment. If not, there is no reason for you to add one since your loading time will most likely be negligible.

[edkedned]

The assignment is marked by creativity and how realistic so I think this is appropriate. Thanks for ur help ... rlly appreciate

[andrew.]

You shouldn't use the loading bar to pretend to load something. Instead, use it as a countdown. I used to have the Millionaire game for PC, and unlike the show, there was a 30 second limit on each question with a small loading bar. Just have the loading bar start full, and gradually go down. It should be at 0 when 30 seconds has passed.

[Dan]

You may want to take a look at this blog post about loading bars:

http://compsci.ca/blog/now-loading-loading-bar-anti-pattern/

[imbored]

yea you shouldnt make a loading screen. Though you can have an introduction screen that shows creativity. Having the who wants to be a millionaire music intro and then having some graphics etc would make it better then just a loading bar

[Kharybdis]

NO LOADING BARS. UNLESS YOU"RE LOADING.
Really a beginner mistake. Loading bars are one of the most annoying things ever.